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JMUH 1801 A - History of Jazz A CRN: 1421 Credits 3 Profesor(s): William Kirchner Day(s) & Time(s): M: 9:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is an overview of Jazz development, beginning with its roots in African, European, and American music and continuing on to the bands of New Orleans and other American and world influences. It combines listening to a variety of the most important jazz recordings with lecture and discussion of their musical and social contexts. It focuses on the first half of the 20th century, including the origins of jazz in New Orleans, its spread throughout the US and the world, the development of the orchestral jazz big-band (swing era), and the development of the improvising "bebop" jazz combo. No extensive background in music or the ability to play a musical instrument is required. This course satisfies some requirements for The Arts.

JMUH 2810 A - Classical Music History CRN: 5448 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Daniel Beliavsky Day(s) & Time(s): F: 9:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course surveys the great tradition of Western classical music prior to 1900. Students study the formal and aesthetic qualities of selected works and consider these works in relation to their historical and social contexts. The focus is on developing an understanding of the relevance of this musical tradition to contemporary improvising musicians.

JPER 4590 A - Gospel Chorus CRN: 2352 Credits 1 TO 2 Profesor(s): Charlotte Small Day(s) & Time(s): R: 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This class is open to all students who are interested in the experience of singing gospel music. The course involves singing a variety of gospel music styles, ranging from traditional to urban xontemporary. The focus revolves around phrasing, stamina, and three-part singing to achieve the authentic gospel sound.

JTEB 4426 A - Survey of the Music Business CRN: 6419 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Gene Perla Day(s) & Time(s): W: 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course provides an overview of the business of music. Students become acquainted with how the business affects the professional musician, music educator, and businessperson. Practical information is covered involving areas such as: copyright laws, performing rights, mechanical rights, agents, management, unions and benefits, the non-for-profit sector, how to create work for yourself, success mindset, problems faced by professional musicians including procrastination, lack of motivation, poor career development and lack of work. Emphasis is on placed on the use of the internet and other contemporary technologies to further the musician's career. The goal of this course is to impart the necessary skills in order to become successful professional musicians and to develop the knowledge of how to build a career in the music industry that includes variety, longevity and levels of success.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 1 of 91 LAIC 2001 A - Women Choreographing Culture CRN: 5639 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Ellen Graff Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course explores the work of significant 20th century female artists in parallel with a reading of classical and contemporary literary texts that inspired and/or influenced their work. Contemporary feminist scholarship helps to generate alternative ways to analyze images produced by these female artists, the purpose these images continue to serve, and the ways in which they may be reinterpreted. The seminar seeks to understand the potential of performance and of the lived body to imagine and generate new and different possibilities.

LAIC 2006 A - Debates in Performance Studies CRN: 6495 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Danielle Goldman Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course introduces students to the field of performance studies. Students survey the history of the field and consider its relations to other academic disciplines. Students discuss questions of methodology and explore debates concerning liveness, performativity, the performance of identity, and the migration of expressive culture. In addition to foundational written texts (by authors such as J.L. Austin, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, Erving Goffman, Michel DeCerteau, Fred Moten, José Muñoz, Peggy Phelan, and Richard Schechner), students analyze a range of documented and live performances in New York City - dance, theater, and music, as well as events more commonly associated with everyday life. The course welcomes students across the arts at Lang, as well as students in the humanities and social sciences who are curious about performance.

LAIC 2007 A - Blondell Cummings Workshop CRN: 6621 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Stefania de Kenessey Day(s) & Time(s): F: 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights is the focus of a series of interdisciplinary workshops. Using observation and research materials from personal, local and global perspectives, human rights issues is explored through traditional and non-traditional approaches, partnerships and collaborations. Artists in all media and non-artists are invited to contribute and realize their ideas and points of view. This three week workshop concludes with a final meditative workshop open to the entire Eugene Lang College community.

LAIC 2009 A - Performance/Phenomenon CRN: 6421 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Francis Cardona Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 6:00 pm - 7:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course explores, through physical practice, what it is to move from "natural" states to "performance" states. Students consider conceptual frameworks involving time, space, and place - and the body's capacity to process and perceive these things - through improvisational movement scores taking place in the studio. All practice, observation, and feedback is theorized through discussion, which leads to additional rounds of practice and experimentation. The course is geared toward dancers, choreographers, visual artists, actors or performers of any kind. Students analyze written texts, live performances, exhibitions, and artworks.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 2 of 91 LAIC 2055 A - Introduction to American Indian Arts CRN: 5463 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Tina Majkowski Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines the role of art and performance in American Indian communities and political movements. Although the focus is on particular performance practices, from current traditional storytelling to performance art and alter/native music, the course also examines the role of the American Indian social and political experience in these practices. Topics include: tradition in American Indian art, the constructed and performative nature of Indianness, reinventing American Indian performance practices and characterization of the reservation in contemporary American Indian performance. Readings include Native American art criticism and literature and key texts that address the relationship between art/performance and race, including perhaps Elizabeth Bird's Dressing in Feathers; Jaye T. Darby and Hanay Geiogamah's Stories of Our Way: An Anthology of American Indian Plays; Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird's Reinventing the Enemy's Language. Performances viewed in class may include: James Luna, Greg Hill, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Colorado Sisters, Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, Blackfire.

LAIC 2069 A - Shock of the New CRN: 5640 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Royd Climenhaga Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course explores the base cultural conditions of Modernism and the need for new models of expression in the arts to reflect radical changes in modes of living beginning in the late 19th century and as they escalate through the 20th century. New modes of expression are considered across the arts, from visual art to music and literature to dance and theater performance. The course follows explosive challenges to form and desire for the new in artistic and cultural practice from the growth of the avant–garde at the turn of the century, through the Punk movements of the `60s and `70's and on to more contemporary reconsiderations of expressive potential.

LAIC 2102 A - Relationship Between Music and Dance CRN: 5641 Credits 4 Profesor(s): William Moulton Day(s) & Time(s): F: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Dance and music becomes a primal and complete art form, melding the visual, aural, and kinesthetic. This course develops the foundational skills necessary for working with music and dance and examines the history, theory, and understanding of their relationship. Students learn the elements of music and how they relate to the fundamentals of dance, and develop skills in playing and dancing particular rhythms. Through readings and video footage of dance works, students study the arrangement of music, and then how it relates to the structure of dance and choreography. Students deconstruct the relationship between music and dance, and in doing so, identify how aural and visual perceptions are linked as they observe and partake in dance. Open to all students.

LAIC 3021 A - Artists on Art CRN: 5642 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Bonnie Marranca Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description his seminar is organized around writings by influential artists from the 18th century to the present who have written about performance, film, dance, photography, music, and visual arts. Among the many writers whose essays, letters, and manifestoes read are Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes, Heinrich von Kleist, T.S. Eliot, Vassily Kandinsky, John Cage, Agnes Martin, Mario Vargas Llosa, Anton Chekhov, Vaclav Havel, Gertrude Stein, Chinua Achebe. Artists' writings and individual artworks serve as the starting point for a wide-ranging consideration of many forms of artistic practice, cultural and political issues, and approaches to performance, writing, and visual culture.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 3 of 91 LAIC 3303 A - Politics of Improvisation CRN: 5643 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Danielle Goldman Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course analyzes how, if at all, improvised dance can be understood as a politically meaningful practice. Where does its power exist? In addition to viewing a range of performances, students survey recent literature on improvised dance, assessing the various ways that improvisation has been lauded in the field of dance studies, and beyond typical configurations of "dance." The course also turns to jazz and jazz studies, where one finds a vast and rigorous analysis of improvisation, and often a more exacting look at race, gender, and the politics of U.S. performance during the '60s and '70s. Students read critical theory that illuminates important concepts in improvisation such as instinct, spontaneity, constraint, and freedom.

LAIC 4401 A - Picasso: Artist of 20th Century CRN: 6553 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Jed Perl Day(s) & Time(s): W: 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Picasso's titanic achievement--as painter, sculptor, and printmaker--reflects nearly every aspect of 20th century experience. And a close examination of his art and his life can show us how one immensely fertile imagination grappled with all the crosscurrents of modern culture. This course examines images and texts that are central to the understanding of Picasso—ranging from his early studies of circus performers, to his surrealist mythologies, to the aesthetic views reflected in his writings. Students also work individually on various aspects of his life and experience—from his political activism and possible anarchist sympathies, to his involvement with the performing arts, to the Surrealist photography of his lover Dora Maar, to his appearances in photojournalism and the movies. The course includes visit to museums and print collections.

LAIC 4502 A - Outsider Art CRN: 6554 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Vera Zolberg Day(s) & Time(s): R: 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: open to juniors and seniors only. Course Description It is a cliché of current cultural criticism that traditional boundaries -- between high and low art; art and politics; art and life itself -- have become hopelessly blurred. Sociologists are not the only ones who try to delineate what is art and how to evaluate it. In this course students seek to understand the changes in the meaning of art in two ways: they survey recent sociological theories of art, reading texts by Becker, Bourdieu, Geertz, among others; they consider how these theories illuminate a concrete empirical phenomenon, outsider art, that is, works created by pure amateurs (be they folk artists, madmen, hobbyists, or homeless people), putatively unsullied by academic or commercial pressures. The larger goal is to explore myths and realities of the socially marginal and the aesthetically pure by analyzing the role each myth plays in the ongoing transvaluation of contemporary culture. Crosslisted with the New School for Social Research. Prerequisites: open to juniors and seniors only.

LANT 2013 A - Reading Ethnography CRN: 6422 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Matthew Rosen Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description In this course, students read contemporary and classic ethnographic texts to discover the range and possibilities of this core anthropological methodology. Topics and styles of writing vary, as do the ideas and locations of the authors. In exploring the politics, ethics, and theories of ethnographic writing, students therefore also encounter a wide variety of people, events, practices, places, and anthropological theory.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 4 of 91 LANT 3130 A - Cultural Politics of Nature CRN: 5295 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Hugh Raffles Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Animal liberation, human cloning, genetically-modified foods, race-and class-based toxic dumping, and the rehabilitation of nuclear energy are all at the center of current debate. In this course, students first explore theoretical perspectives on nature and the environment and then take a case-study approach, drawing on a range of texts (literary, ethnographic, historical, sociological, etc.) to develop a multidimensional basis for understanding why nature is such a key site of contemporary cultural and political struggle. This course satisfies some of the requirements in Literary Studies: Writing concentration.

LARS 2015 A - Photography as Activism CRN: 6425 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Michelle Bogre Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description Almost since its inception, photography has been used to advocate for social and environmental awareness. Photographers have witnessed, interpreted, exposed, and addressed obvious problems such as child labor, AIDS, famine, war, and the plight of refugees and migrant workers. Images presented at Congressional hearings were instrumental in creating the National Park System and protecting Alaska's Artic National Wildlife Refuge. Blending theory, history and practice, this course examines the nature and methods of activist photography and photographers since the 19th Century. Students engage in the process of photography as activism throughout the course. No prior photographic experience is necessary, but Photography I or the equivalent will be useful. Students must have a camera. This course also satisfies some requirements in Culture and Media.

LARS 2019 A - Arts in New York City CRN: 2907 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Ivan Raykoff Day(s) & Time(s): : - Prerequisite(s Course Description In this course students take part in an exciting variety of music and theater performances and art exhibits in New York City, including on-campus presentations by visiting artists and performers. Students attend seven programmed events during the semester and share their reviews in an online forum. Lang College covers the cost of all tickets for these events, so course enrollment is limited. The one and only class meeting, required of all registered students, is scheduled for the second Monday of the semester at 6:00pm in the Lang Cafeteria.

LARS 2022 A - History and Theory of Exhibitions CRN: 5644 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Janet Kraynak Day(s) & Time(s): F: 10:00 am - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course explores the history, theory, and practice of art exhibitions as well as the larger context of the historical, social, and ideological function of artistic institutions (from the museum, to criticism, to the gallery). Through and integrated series of seminar sessions and outside visits to a range of exhibitions and museums (among which may include, the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, the Guggenheim, the Whitney Museum, the Studio Museum of Harlem, etc.) students examine key historical events and issues, such as the founding of the national museum, the emergence of the modern museum, and the shifting nature and roles of exhibitions and curatorial practices, and their relationship to new trends in artistic practice. Recent issues in curatorial practice, and the emerging role of the curator as arbiter of contemporary art, are also addressed. Students view, critique, and discuss current exhibitions; meet with professionals (i.e. curators, education directors); attend lectures with working artists. (Please note: for some of these programs, availability outside of regular class hours may be required).

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 5 of 91 LARS 2025 A - Lang at the Guggenheim CRN: 3657 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Filip Noterdaeme Day(s) & Time(s): F: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course offers an in-depth exploration of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: its history, Frank Lloyd Wright architecture, exhibitions and role as a major New York City cultural institution. Each semester the course focuses on a current exhibition through which students examine artist(s), artworks, curatorial and educational considerations, installation procedures, public reception, and the role of the exhibition within the context of the goals of the Guggenheim Museum and contemporary art culture. Weekly readings inform the primarily discussion-based classes, upholding the Guggenheim's educational philosophy rooted in the value of interactive dialogue and exchange. Students take approximately four trips to the museum to experience and discuss the exhibitions and meet with key staff members regarding particular aspects of the museum's dynamics.

LARS 2026 A - Red, Black, and Gold CRN: 6424 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Jeanette Fintz Day(s) & Time(s): T: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description How many ways do you "see red"? When do you get the "blues"? Color is a powerful nonverbal language, a primal tool used by all civilizations and cultures, to uplift, communicate and unify. The Rubin Museum of Art's exhibition Red, Black, and Gold is the impetus for this customized course that explores color's vibrant social and cross-cultural significance. The course exposes color as a social signifier used in marketing and advertising, reveals its structural function in delineating and enhancing space in architecture and design, and its expressive use in art, film, and literature. The course includes trips to museums, places of worship and of commerce, and other metropolitan areas. Note: Students registered for this Tuesday at 4:00 pm class will need to have Thursday afternoon 4:00 pm free to visit the to the Rubin Museum and MoMA.

LARS 2059 A - Buddhist Arts of Himalayas CRN: 6426 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Adam Swart Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This seminar introduces students to the Buddhist art and architecture of Tibet and Western Himalayan regions in the context of cultural and socio-political processes that produced a wide variety of artistic expressions. Students explore the topics of Buddhist iconography, ritual, and production of art; learn about styles and methods of Himalayan painting and sculpture. As part of the visual study of Himalayan art students visit the Rubin Museum of Art. Students may choose some of the exhibited works of art as subjects for their midterm and final papers.

LARS 2208 A - Skybridge Curatorial Project CRN: 3911 Credits 2 TO 4 Profesor(s): Simonetta Moro Day(s) & Time(s): T: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description The Skybridge Arts Space, on the third floor between Lang and the New School, provides an opportunity for multi-media exhibitions and curriculum-based projects in the arts. The focus is on visiting artists work, student and faculty work, and broader curatorial projects aiming at making the space a vibrant and exciting laboratory for visual and critical thinking. Students consider several distinct areas for the management of the gallery space, such as exhibition conceptualization, installation practice, and archiving. Field trips to museums and art galleries, as well as theoretical readings, provide a necessary frame of reference. Students meet once a week, and must have flexible schedules particularly on the days before the openings. See the instructor for further information.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 6 of 91 LARS 3055 A - Mapping it Out CRN: 5124 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Simonetta Moro Day(s) & Time(s): F: 10:00 am - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course compares New York city-walking with 20th century European and American practices of walking as an aesthetic form, map making, and the psychogeographic disciplines. The city is the topos and the tool for wanderings and explorations, an outdoor laboratory stimulating drawing, painting, photography, video, and narrative. Students work as a group and individually to produce a map/book and a final exhibition. Studio sessions parallel theoretical seminars. Readings include Francesco Careri's Walkscapes, and excerpts from Benjamin, Bachelard, Lynch, Phillips, Vidler, and Koolhaas. Note: this is a seminar-and-studio combined course. Some basic drawing or other art-making skills are helpful, but not a prerequisite. Students who already took this course and wish to develop further research into mapping should contact the instructor.

LARS 3401 A - Himalayan Art at Rikers Island CRN: 6427 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Rebecca Gaugler Day(s) & Time(s): F: 12:00 pm - 3:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description The Rubin Museum of Art (RMA), located in Chelsea, is the only museum in the Western world dedicated to the arts and culture of the Himalayan region. The RMA's Education Program, Thinking Through Art (TTA), teaches classes at Rikers Island Academy for incarcerated students ages 16-18. Lang students in this course meet weekly at Island Academy to develop critical-thinking skills and visual literacy with incarcerated youth, while exposing them to the art from the RMA collection. After receiving training from RMA in teaching Himalayan art, Lang students co-teach the curriculum at Rikers Island. The course focuses on a semester long project with the incarcerated youth.

LARS 3951 A - IS: Skybridge Sound CRN: 5244 Credits 2 TO 4 Profesor(s): Sarah Montague Day(s) & Time(s): : - Prerequisite(s Course Description The Skybridge Arts Space, on the third floor between Lang and the New School, provides an opportunity for multi-media exhibitions and curriculum-based projects in the arts. The focus is on students' work, visiting artists' shows, faculty work, and broader curatorial projects, making the space a vibrant and exciting laboratory for aural concepts and critical thinking. Students learn the history and practice of audio art, in the context of exhibition conceptualization and installation practice, and research and create acoustical landscapes that complement the visual and textual components of each installation. Field trips to public radio stations and sound installations, as well as historical examples, provide a necessary frame of reference. Students meet once a week, and must have flexible schedules particularly on the days before an opening. See the instructor for further information. This is an Independent Study.

LCST 2120 A - Introduction to Cultural Studies (Disc. Sec Reqd) CRN: 3079 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Deborah Levitt Day(s) & Time(s): M: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines the pivotal role of culture in the modern world, including the ideas, values, artifacts, and practices of people in their collective lives. Cultural Studies focuses on the importance of studying the material processes through which culture is constructed. It highlights process over product and rupture over continuity. In particular, it presents culture as a dynamic arena of social struggle and utopian possibility. Students read key thinkers and examine critical frameworks from a historical and a theoretical approach, such as Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall and the Birmingham School; the work on popular culture, identity politics, and postmodernism in America; and the emergence of a 'global cultural studies' in which transnational cultural flows are examined and assessed. Class sessions are set up as dialogic encounters between cultural theory and concrete analysis.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 7 of 91 LCST 3037 A - International Media and Meaning (MH) (RE) CRN: 6645 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Amber Benezra Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description How are current affairs treated in different international mainstream media? What do French readers learn about the war in Iraq compared to American readers? How does Russian media report the developments in Sudan? In this course, all students choose one foreign and on American mainstream publication and they will critically follow the differences and similarities in content, tone, and style of the coverage. The coverage of current national and international developments will be discussed in relation to themes such as globalization, economics, nationalism, culture and ethnicity, language, and human rights.

LCST 3071 A - Media Activism (GS) (RE) CRN: 3080 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Kendra Stanchfield Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course combines theory and practice of video. Students examine the global and local histories of how video, and especially documentary, have been used in social and political activism. They critically examine the theoretical issues of representation and power and consider ethical issues such as confidentiality. The course combines readings, screenings of key videos and students complete a final video project. Documentaries screened each week include those from the US and foreign film that have had a key impact in effecting social change.

LCST 2450 A - Introduction to Media Studies (Disc. Sec Reqd) CRN: 2628 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Sumita Chakravarty Day(s) & Time(s): T: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course introduces the student to basic concepts and approaches in the critical analysis of communications media. Drawing on contemporary critiques and historical studies, it seeks to build an understanding of different forms of media, such as photography and cinema, television and video, the internet and hypermedia, in order to assess their role and impact in society. Since media are at once technology, art and entertainment, and business enterprises, they need to be studied from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The readings for the course reflect this multi-pronged approach and draw attention to the work of key thinkers and theorists in the field. Moreover, the readings build awareness of the international dimensions of media activity, range, and power.

LCST 3990 A - Indian Media and Natl Culture (MH) (RE) CRN: 5195 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Sumita Chakravarty Day(s) & Time(s): : - Prerequisite(s Course Description This course introduces students to the study of modern India by focusing on the concept of Indian nationhood as constructed through popular media (primarily cinema and television, but also newspapers and posters). Nationalism has been a key mobilizing force in many third world societies, marking the transition from decolonization to independence and development. Hence scholars have devoted considerable attention to this process, charting the intersections of history and politics, culture and values. The role of the cinema has been particularly central to nation formation, and this course will be grounded in the critical discourses surrounding this phenomenon. The popular television serial, Ramayana, based on the ancient epic, will also be studied as a way to understand the politics of religion in India and their relationship to national identity. Screenings, field trips to museums and commemorative sites, and guest lectures will be part of the overall experience of the course.

LCST 3991 A - Global City: Mapping Bangalore (DM) (RE) CRN: 5196 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Sumita Chakravarty Day(s) & Time(s): : - Prerequisite(s Course Description This is an independent study in India.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 8 of 91 LCST 2039 A - Media/Theory/Technology (DM) (MH) CRN: 6496 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Samuel Tobin Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course focuses on the role of technological thinking in the study of media. It introduces the student to a variety of perspectives on the machines and apparatuses that undergird the systems of meaning that we know as media. Topics include the technologies of sound and image, apparatus theory of cinema, painting and CGI, technics and time, cyborgs, and games. The goal of the course is to acquaint the student with a rich tradition of inquiry into the technological bases of media forms.

LCST 2071 A - Witness and Intervention: Media (DM) (MH) (RE) CRN: 6428 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Jesal Kapadia Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description What does resistance look like? What kind of images of intervention and non-cooperation have we produced? This course is meant to prompt critical thinking on the topic through a practice-based approach. We will examine media produced by a plethora of interventionist artists and collectives that have emerged all over the world in the past two decades. We will conclude with a look at the current political events and the images produced around it, with special attention to photography, film and video. Students are expected to attend regular screenings, participate in weekly readings and discussions, as well as produce media. Emphasis will be put on both theoretical knowledge as well as hands on skills such as camera work, printing, sound, lighting and non-linear editing.(Pre-requisites: DM 1 and 2 or DM 1 and Introduction to Media Studies)

LCST 2452 A - Digital Moviemaking 1 (DM) CRN: 3070 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Lauren Petty Day(s) & Time(s): F: 12:00 pm - 2:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course enables students, who were once consumers of media, to become the media makers themselves. Students evelop communication skills using the language of motion picture. They learn a basic foundation for digital video pre-production, production, and post-production. They also learn scripting, storyboarding, directing, shooting, lighting, sound recording, and editing techniques used for digital video production. This not only helps students tell stories visually but also equips them in exploring, analyzing, and questioning the mass media on more profound levels. By the end of the semester, students will have created a 1-5 minute digital movie. This is a practiced-based course.

LCST 2452 B - Digital Moviemaking 1 (DM) CRN: 5286 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Michele Beck Day(s) & Time(s): F: 9:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course enables students, who were once consumers of media, to become the media makers themselves. Students evelop communication skills using the language of motion picture. They learn a basic foundation for digital video pre-production, production, and post-production. They also learn scripting, storyboarding, directing, shooting, lighting, sound recording, and editing techniques used for digital video production. This not only helps students tell stories visually but also equips them in exploring, analyzing, and questioning the mass media on more profound levels. By the end of the semester, students will have created a 1-5 minute digital movie.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 9 of 91 LCST 2775 A - Media Toolkit (DM) CRN: 4616 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Karl Julius Mendonca Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course situates "media" in the broader context of an innovative and integrative liberal arts education. As such, it enables students to evaluate and make decisions concerning their relationship to proliferating technologies and various new media. This course combines lectures and lab-work to help students familiarize themselves with various software platforms and multimedia tools, in order to more effectively gather, analyze, contextualize, present, and re-present information within a broad political and cultural framework. After completing the five different modules (intro, image, word, sound, number), students better understand—and are more confident in using— the various modes and methods that enable the critically informed to "read between the pixels," as well as meaningfully contribute to the ever-expanding digital public sphere. This is an Integrative course.

LCST 3013 A - Gender, Economics, and the Media (GS) CRN: 5677 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Tuija Parikka Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course explores the gender subtext of economic debates and the economic subtext of discussions concerned with gender in the media, and examines how the gender representations in connection with the organization of wealth may be connected to wider sociocultural and political climates in different eras. Using case studies, students analyze newspapers, magazines, and TV programs as cultural products contributing to struggles over economic resources. Students write a research paper and engage in class projects.

LCST 3016 A - Ethnographic Film (MH) (RE) CRN: 3689 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Ina Ray Day(s) & Time(s): W: 6:00 pm - 9:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description In this course, students learn the advantages and disadvantages of ethnography (a recording of a culture), as a written text and ethnography as a film text. The class discusses the moral, ethical, and aesthetic issues that arise for the ethnographic filmmaker and audience/reader. A variety of ethnographic, documentary, and experimental films that reflect, criticize, and innovate the field of anthropology and filmmaking are screened. Students participate in video documentary exercises to gain a practical understanding of the dilemmas that ethnographic filmmakers face. Authors and filmmakers include: Robert Flaherty, Richard Leacock, Judith and David MacDougall, John Marshall, Jean Rouch, Peter Loizos, Chris Marker, and Trinh T. Minh-ha.

LCST 3024 A - Rhythm Nation: Pop Culture Narrative (MH) (RE) CRN: 5689 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Christopher Johnson Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course considers the relation between personal and national narrative in our time. Alan Nadel has defined containment as our cold war-based national narrative. He concludes that such national narratives intimidate the personal and Nadel finds a sexual narrative of courtship and rivalry in the international. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has shown the richness of personal narration and its relationship to oral and communal discourse. For Gates rhetorical strategies in African-American culture are metaphorical and often make reference to a double consciousness. Course texts include Tribal Talk: Black Theology, Hermeneutics, and African American Ways of 'Telling the Story' by Will Coleman, Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation by Elleke Boehmer, and Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 10 of 91 LCST 3026 A - Radio/Audio: Theories and Applications (DM) (MH) CRN: 6435 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Sarah Montague Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course presents the theory, aesthetics, and practical applications of radio and audio production. It covers the development of recorded sound, early acoustic works and sound art, radio production in the context of the radio broadcast industry and radio/audio production today in various contexts such as commercial and public radio, audio books, and webcasting. While not an engineering course, students learn practical skills related to production concepts and design, and the various formats in which radio productions are realized: news and cultural features, documentaries, audio books, dramas, and docudramas, and touch on such related fields as film and theatre sound, and sound art. In addition to text reading, listening sessions, and discussion, students are involved in the creation of an actual radio production. Pre-requisite: Introduction to Media Studies.

LCST 3028 A - Oral Narratives as History (MH) (RE) CRN: 6432 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Hanna Griff-Sleven Day(s) & Time(s): F: 10:00 am - 12:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description The course focuses on practical field methods usable for academic research and public outreach at the Museum at Eldridge Street, a newly restored landmark synagogue located in the Lower East Side of New York City. Students have the opportunity to document the history, traditions, context, uses, and meanings associated with American Jewish life, with a focus on New York City. Students are trained in oral history interviewing techniques, transcription, and the evaluation of oral evidence. Students read transcriptions, listen to audio interviews, view films, and examine web-based oral histories as they evaluate how presentation impacts the creation of meaning. Each student conducts a series of interviews, with selected people associated with a case study, transcribe, and edit the materials for web publication or develop a public presentation for the Museum at Eldridge Street. This course is crosslisted with History.

LCST 3075 A - Media Topics: 2008 Election (DM) (MH) CRN: 6497 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Natascha Van Der Zwan Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Pre-requisite: Introduction to Media Studies Course Description This course addresses the media coverage leading up to, and including, the American presidential election of 2008. Drawing on print, broadcast, and online media sources, the class assesses and evaluates the relationship between media and politics, and the role played by diverse media outlets in influencing the public's understanding of the candidates. It also looks at the possibilities to re-shape the public sphere opened up by new media. Pre-requisite: Introduction to Media Studies

LCST 3079 A - Media and Civic Engagement (GS) (RE) CRN: 6434 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Tuija Parikka Day(s) & Time(s): F: 12:00 pm - 3:20 pm Prerequisite(s Pre-requisite: Introduction to Media Studies Course Description This course explores some of the gravest social and economic problems currently faced by women in need in the U.S through theory and activism. We study media representations of poverty, domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse, homelessness, HIV/AIDS, and human rights in relation to gender, race, and class, and closely work with women in Women in Need's shelters in New York to support women's agency and self-definition power in fighting severe obstacles and disadvantages in related areas of their lives. To promote rendering women in need visible as citizens in the media through access, deliberation, and participation, students produce alternative narratives with the women in need for the public radio. Course work includes research and volunteer work in WIN's shelters. Pre-requisite: Introduction to Media Studies

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 11 of 91 LCST 3138 A - Animatic Apparatus (DM) (MH) CRN: 6433 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Deborah Levitt Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description In this course students examine how rhetorics of life and "new" media have converged across the broad sweep of modernity-from the zoetrope of 1834 to medical filmmaking and "live" television, from fetal ultrasounds to cinematic zombies to Artificial Life forms in new media art. Using these sites to stage a broader inquiry into the strange brew of media, biology, and politics currently bubbling up in debates on abortion, neomorts, and stem cell research, on GMOs and cloning, students analyze connections between these animatic media archaeologies and our mediated futures. Student use literary texts, films, and philosophical works to pursue this inquiry, and readings/screenings may include E.T.A. Hoffmann's "The Sandman," Freud's "The Uncanny," Artaud's writings on the Theater of Cruelty, Busby Berkeley musicals, Steve Tomasula's The Book of Portraiture, and Mamoru Oshii's Innocence: Ghost in the Shell 2.

LCST 3453 A - Documentary Portrait (DM) (MH) (RE) CRN: 5217 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Amy Goodman Day(s) & Time(s): M: 6:00 pm - 9:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course explores the practice of making documentary film portraits. Students participate in the development of Dreamers (working title), a documentary film about elementary school students in the Elliott-Chelsea "I Have A Dream"® program at Public School 33 in Chelsea. The "I Have A Dream"® Foundation, founded by Eugene Lang, is a national organization that provides long-term support and college tuition to children from low-income communities. Each student completes a short documentary film portrait, developed and produced over the course of the semester. Readings and screenings of several documentary films compliment students' ongoing hands-on production experience and contribute to understanding the art, challenges, and deep responsibility of telling the stories of others.

LCST 3777 A - Maintaining Community Online (DM) CRN: 6436 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Karl Julius Mendonca Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description Students operate and maintain the on-line version of the Lang student newspaper. They explore options of online community- building, develop and exploit resources of the web for media expression, launch content prototypes or formats, and study conceptually the role of new media in promoting community identity and action. They also work on the New School's fledgling web radio station. Course work includes the design of a comprehensive strategy incorporating traditional and non-traditional media and learning to harness Web applications and content-management systems to achieve these ends. This course satisfies Writing's crosslisted course requirements.

LCST 3901 A - On Air: newschoolradio (DM) CRN: 5281 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Sarah Montague Day(s) & Time(s): F: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description WNSR is the New School's web-based radio station. Students are responsible for managing and producing content for the station's five programming streams, currently conceived as a series of podcasts while streaming options are being explored. Course components include station management including marketing and fundraising; Audio production including basic recording and mixing; Broadcast journalism including interviewing and writing for radio; Feature productions, editing, and critiquing; Music programming; Artistic performance programming-interfacing with Eugene Lang's wide array of creative performance and arts programming. Classes meet fully once a week, but students should be prepared to work independently outside of regular class times. This is a practiced-based course.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 12 of 91 LCST 4013 A - Women Made Media Global Perspective (GS) (RE) CRN: 6439 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Jesal Kapadia Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is a thematic history of women's movements and the media produced around it, foregrounding issues of both personal and political nature. We will start by examining women's participation in the public debate from the late 19th century up till now, raising questions regarding the nature of the contemporary global feminist movement and the images it produces. The course will look at the social and artistic aspects of various genres such as documentary, graphic design, agit-prop, experimental film and video among other tactical approaches, particularly as they are utilized by women, people of color, lesbians and gays, grassroots activists, as well as other minorities who are under and/or misrepresented by mainstream media. Students are expected to attend all the screenings and slide-lectures, participate in weekly readings and discussions, as well as produce media.

LCST 4021 A - West European Media Cultures (MH) (RE) CRN: 6437 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Samuel Tobin Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is an introduction to the media landscape in Western Europe, focusing mainly on England, Germany, the Netherlands, and France. It examines national newspapers, main television networks, and news magazines, analyzes governmental media policies, and discusses national styles of media coverage in relation to their social and political background. This course offers students a general understanding of the media landscape and media culture in the most important West European countries, and a thorough understanding of the media landscape in one country of their choice. It provides an understanding of national debates and media priorities in West European countries; a deepened understanding of how news media work, by conferring with European correspondents and a visit to the BBC headquarters in New York (tentative). And finally, students gain general skills of group debate, presentation, and essay- and newspaper-article writing.

LCST 4449 A - Politics of Protocols (DM) CRN: 6498 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Edward Byfield Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course traces the development of computer networking in technical, social, and institutional terms, from the earliest timesharing systems and dialup bulletin boards through the emerging crazyquilt of oversight organizations. Special emphasis is on the relationship between poetics (idealized representations of communication) and protocols (pragmatics techniques for communicating), and how the negotiations and compromises between the two serve to politicize communication itself. Through readings, research, case studies, and collaborative projects (written, visual, and/or practical/visual), students develop a critical vocabulary for analyzing the key forces, approaches, and models that are increasingly shaping the material basis through which cultures are propagated. This course is crosslisted with Parsons.

LCST 4501 A - Concept of Culture (MH) (RE) CRN: 6555 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Elzbieta Matynia Day(s) & Time(s): R: 4:00 pm - 5:50 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: open to juniors and seniors only. Course Description Philosophers have long been preoccupied with the phenomenon of culture, as have historians, sociologists, and anthropologists. What does "culture" mean? How should we approach the understanding and transmission of culture? This course investigates the main debates surrounding the idea of culture and its development. Whether discussing the Greek notion of paidea, the Romantic ideal of genius, or the historiographic essays of the Annales historians of our own day, students trace the dynamics of two contrasting approaches to culture: the broadly empirical and anthropological approach, and the more narrowly normative and "humanistic" approach. The readings include works by Plato, Vico, Herder, Marx, Durkheim, Marcel Mauss, Lucien Febvre, Braudel, A.L. Kroeber, J. Huizinga, Ernst Cassirer, and Raymond Williams. This course is crosslisted with the New School for Social Research. Prerequisites: open to juniors and seniors only.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 13 of 91 LCST 4900 A - Senior Seminar: Culture and the Self CRN: 3870 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Christopher Johnson Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Seniors only. Course Description This senior seminar will present approaches to identity and subjectivity. We will read about and discuss the culture of the self, or identity, and, experience, or subjectivity, as a way to clarify and make accessible the topics that class participants might be interested in pursuing. Students also consider notions of the fragmented self, and, the self and identity for author and audience. By using subjecthood as a base, course participants are encouraged to devise individual and group projects. Seniors only.

LDAN 2000 A - Choreography 1 CRN: 4575 Credits 1 Profesor(s): Karla Wolfangle Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines the basic building blocks of choreography including moving through space, creating patterns, experimenting with rhythm and dynamics, and analyzing movement phrases. The concepts of abstraction, gesture and style are examined to develop a vocabulary of movement to serve choreographic demands. Students learn the principles of creating dance works and develop structured composed studies. Students observe, analyze, and critique other's work. This course is open to all students.

LDAN 2105 A - Improvisation 1 CRN: 3082 Credits 1 Profesor(s): Rebecca Stenn Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course uses practice of creative improvisation and composition to give an understanding of dance. Both trained and untrained students learn to identify and develop their individual movement style. The course is supplemented with readings and video viewings related to major trends in 20th century dance. Through class discussions, group demonstration, movement experiences, written exercises, and reflective activities, students communicate their experience of dance and synthesize material. Creative problem solving enhances the improvisational/compositional experience, and live music augments dance studies. This foundation course is beneficial for dancers, actors, musicians, artists, poets, and students interested in collaboration in the arts. This course is open to both dancers and non-dancers. This course can be counted as a theater elective.

LDAN 2005 A - Introduction to Modern Dance 1 CRN: 3669 Credits 1 Profesor(s): Joao Carvalho Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:30 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course introduces the student to the basic principles of contemporary dance including posture, placement, isolation, coordination, flexibility, and strength. The students acquire a basic knowledge of dance in theory and practice by taking weekly movement classes in modern dance. Gaining an understanding and awareness of the body help students to move in a safe and healthy manner. Students are encouraged to develop individuality and creativity through movement exploration. Open to all students.

LDAN 2006 A - Technique 1: Modern CRN: 2313 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Joao Carvalho Day(s) & Time(s): MWF: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Students explore different dimensions of dance by developing and strengthening their technical skill. The course surveys the concepts of contemporary dance through the use of breath to gain power in the torso, spiral in the body, articulation of the legs and feet, and alignment through visualization. Contemporary styles strengthen body placement, build stamina, develop memory, and build technical proficiency. Students that register for this class are also expected to enroll in Technique 1: Ballet. Technique 1 is an advanced level class for students with previous training in dance.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 14 of 91 LDAN 2010 A - Anatomy/Kinesiology CRN: 2314 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Sean Gallagher Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description Students learn the basics of the anatomical body. The course examines the muscles, bones, and joint structures that compose the skeletal system. The basis of the course is to learn the language of anatomy and how the human body performs. The course analyzes the structure and function of the body through observation, research, palpation, and manipulation to ensure that a comprehensive learning process is explored. Knowledge of anatomical, physiological and kinesiological principles is emphasized for movement efficiency and injury prevention. This course is open to both dancers and non-dancers.

LDAN 2016 A - Technique 1: Ballet CRN: 5645 Credits 1 Profesor(s): Mary Carpenter Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Students explore different dimensions of dance by developing and strengthening their technical skill. This course builds on the principles of classical ballet including barre and center work such as adagio, pirouettes, and petite and grand allegros. Classical technique strengthens body placement, build stamina, develop memory, and build technical proficiency. Students that register for this class are also expected to enroll in Technique 1: Modern.

LDAN 2021 A - Lang at Judson Church CRN: 4576 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Charles Houston Jones Day(s) & Time(s): : - Prerequisite(s Course Description This course provides students the opportunity to delve into the downtown New York dance scene, by attending regular weekly performances of Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church. These performances are a free, high visibility, low tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works in progress. Students learn the history of the Judson Church in the context of post-modernism and avantgarde experimentalism in the early 1960's, with a focus on artists whose ground breaking work continue to influence the present day generation. Students write a series of short response papers articulating their response to the performances as they develop their own personal processes as performing or visual artists. A dance background is not a requisite for this class. Students will attend performances at Judson Church every Monday evening and participate in online discussion. The church is located at 55 Washington Square South. This is a Lang Out and About course. The first class meeting will be at 7pm in the Lang Cafe.

LDAN 3001 A - Dance History: From Ritual to Romanticism CRN: 3081 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Patricia Beaman Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course explores why dance has continued to be important in the history of civilization. It covers an overview of dance from its origins in India; to Bali and Java; the Noh and Kabuki theatrical traditions of Japan; dances of the Ashanti, Yoruba, and Masai tribes of Africa; the rites of passage in Aboriginal Australian dances; the dervish dance of Turkey; and the Dionysian rituals of ancient Greece. The course culminates with exploring Renaissance court entertainment and the origins of ballet in the court spectacles of Louis XIV's Versailles and the Paris Opera during the Baroque period. Romantic ballets of the 19th century such as La Sylphide, Giselle, and Bournonville's Napoli are also studied. In addition to written texts and video documentation, students review examples of related art forms (visual arts, music, and drama) and the rare audio-visual records available at the Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center. This course satisfies some of the requirements in Literary Studies: Writing concentration.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 15 of 91 LDAN 3020 A - Technique 2: Modern CRN: 2710 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Karla Wolfangle Day(s) & Time(s): F: 10:00 am - 11:30 am Prerequisite(s Technique 2 is an advanced level class for students with previous training in dance. Course Description This course builds upon the principles of Technique I: Modern. The course further develops technical proficiency in contemporary technique and defines the concepts of alignment, strength, flexibility, coordination, and articulation. Students that register for this class are also expected to enroll in Technique 2: Ballet. Technique 2 is an advanced level class for students with previous training in dance.

LDAN 3021 A - Technique 2: Ballet CRN: 5646 Credits 1 Profesor(s): Francois Perron Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:30 am Prerequisite(s Technique 2 is an advanced level class for students with previous training in dance. Course Description This course builds upon the principles of Technique 1: Ballet. The course further develops technical proficiency in classical technique and further defines the concepts of alignment, strength, flexibility, coordination, and articulation. Students that register for this class are also expected to enroll in Technique 2: Modern Technique 2 is an advanced level class for students with previous training in dance.

LDAN 3320 A - Choreography 2 CRN: 3670 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Rebecca Stenn Day(s) & Time(s): F: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is a seminar/forum, where students work on serious choreographic projects under the guidance of the professors. The course explores the basic elements and tools of choreography to create comprehensive choreographic works and to explore crafting and arranging movement phrases, while examining the role of music, style, content, dynamics, transitions, patterns, and structure. Through an in-depth knowledge of compositional vocabulary, students form and structure advanced movement studies. Through an analytical study of choreography and performance, students critique their own work and the work of others. Students learn to translate ideas, images, and themes into studies that develop their own choreographic voice and personal style.

LDAN 3520 A - Technique 3: Modern CRN: 3671 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Eric Bradley Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:30 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course builds upon the principles of Technique 1 and 2. This course further develops technical proficiency in contemporary styles and defines the concepts of alignment, strength, flexibility, coordination, and articulation.

LECO 4510 A - Historical Foundations of Political Economy CRN: 5867 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Anwar Shaikh Day(s) & Time(s): T: 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course provides an introduction to the history of classical economic thought. The course begins with a brief survey of political economy to 1776, then turn to the classical economists. The focus is on Smith, Malthus, Ricardo, Mill, and Marx, with about half the semester devoted to a survey of Marx's economics, treated in the context of classical political economy. This course is crosslisted with the New School for Social Research.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 16 of 91 LECO 2029 A - Economics of Disasters: Theories, Case Studies, and Impact Analysis CRN: 5197 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Lopamudra Banerjee Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description The course draws upon social and natural sciences to explore the discourse on disasters. Extending the analysis from natural calamities (including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and flooding) to man-made disasters (including violent conflicts and genocides), the course examines the causes, effects, and options available to mitigate disasters, manage risks, and reduce vulnerability.

LECO 3101 A - History of Thought CRN: 5866 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Edward Nell Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course traces the development of economic science from its origins in the 17th century up to the present. The course examines how a particular set of analytical problems became a focus of scientific study, and how economists have tried to understand these problems over the discipline's history. The relevance of the course is two-fold: first, many of the theoretical issues that preoccupied the economists of the past remain controversial; second, careful study of the accomplishments and missteps of the economists of the past can help us to become more skillful economists for our own time.

LECO 3823 A - Intermediate Microeconomics: Methods and Models CRN: 6441 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Duncan Foley Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course introduces students to modern economic methods of modeling social interactions. Topics include game theory as a method of conceptualizing social interaction, decision theory, self-organization of economies and coordination failures, the ideal-type of competitive markets, and its limitations, labor market contracts and the role of power in the workplace, and an introduction to the theory of economic institutions. All of the mathematics required for the course are covered in the assignments, readings, and lectures. Text used is selected chapters of Samuel Bowles' Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions and Evolution.

LECO 4506 A - Graduate Macroeconomics CRN: 3738 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Willi Semmler Day(s) & Time(s): R: 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course covers the theory of economic growth and fluctuations. The first half of the course covers classical, Keynesian, and neoclassical theories of economic growth, technical change, and endogenous growth theory. The second half of the course centers on the theory of economic fluctuations, including the study of the dynamic interaction of the product, financial, and labor markets. Crosslisted with the New School for Social Research.

LEDU 1005 A - Education and Public Policy CRN: 6444 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Joseph Nelson Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course explores different social policies and theories often used to address or explain problems/issues in urban education. Special attention is given to race, gender, class, and culture. Along with observations in urban schools, the course analyzes equal access to "quality education" in cities and effective approaches to schooling that close the achievement gap between students who do well in school and those who chose to drop-out. Topics include multicultural education, "school culture", and the use of community resources. The course concludes with group research projects with recommendations for urban schools. This course is for High School students.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 17 of 91 LEDU 2010 A - Youth, Identity, and Culture CRN: 5719 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Maria Torre Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This seminar explores the questions and assumptions embedded in notions of "adolescence," "youth culture," and "youth identity" through an examination of social, psychological, and cultural issues pertaining to young people across the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and physical ability. The course draws from sociological, psychological, and educational research on youth (as well as that by and for); popular writing; youth writing; poetry and fiction; youth newspapers and magazines; TV and movies; the internet and other forms of popular culture; guest speakers; field work and youth events in New York City.

LEDU 2014 A - Introduction to Education Policy CRN: 6446 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Joseph Nelson Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This seminar examines educational policies and their implementation within the socio-political context of urban school districts. Case studies of real-world policies and practical outcomes are studied to explain complex urban educational problems. Students use relevant concepts and methodologies from the social sciences to analyze policies critically and propose practical solutions. Case studies grapple with issues such as educational equity and opportunity, curriculum and standards, school-size and organizational structures, school choice, and school finance and governance. The seminar includes analysis of the processes of public policy-making and implementation, team fieldwork on policy problems, especially those involving the relationship between policy and power, workshops with educational policy-makers and introduction to New York City-based public and private agencies connected to the field of urban education.

LEDU 2101 A - Introduction to Education: Theory and Practice CRN: 5720 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Jaskiran Dhillon Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description By exploring the beliefs, goals, and practices of education in American life, this course examines the relationship between schooling, democracy, and American society. Drawing on classic and contemporary thought from the intellectual traditions of educational anthropology, history, philosophy, and sociology, it introduces students to some of the important texts and ways of thinking about education in the U.S. Seminar topics include the role of schools and education in American society; the development and organization of schools; philosophical and pedagogical theories of how people learn and the purposes of education; how schools reproduce (or can interrupt) larger social inequalities; historical and contemporary issues surrounding race and ethnicity in schools; and the role of families and communities in the education of young people.

LEDU 2901 A - New City New Words: ESL/EFL CRN: 6447 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Jeanne Lambert Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Language and literacy are key elements in the health of a democracy. This course trains students in the methods of teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) while also examining the contemporary immigrant experience. Students plan and execute effective ESL instruction with an emphasis on all four language skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Teaching grammar, vocabulary, functions, and pronunciation are also covered. Students have the opportunity to co-teach an ESL class within a local non-profit organization in NYC. In the spring, students may continue with the ESL Teaching Practicum, which includes field experience and a seminar component.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 18 of 91 LEDU 3006 A - Philosophy of Education CRN: 6449 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Eric Anthamatten Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines the history of philosophical writings on education. As epitomized by Plato's famous dialogues, the philosopher's primary role is to dynamically engage with the world, requiring listeners, students, other speakers, and a larger community, i.e., to always educate and always be educated. The course follows a historical trajectory—from the Greeks and Romans, through the Scholastics, to Modernity and the Enlightenment, culminating in contemporary philosophies of education. Special emphasis is on the pedagogical philosophies of John Dewey. Students also explore broad epistemological, psychological, and ethical questions regarding the nature of knowledge, the process of learning, the role of experience and community in education, and what it might mean to educate the "whole" person. This course also satisfies requirements for Philosophy.

LEDU 3020 A - Hip Hop Pedagogy CRN: 5722 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Lakersha Smith Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course explores how hip-hop contributes to urban educational settings. By exploring music, language, ideology, style, etc., students investigate what constitutes hip-hop culture. From there they examine the many ways education and schooling are characterized with and by this culture. They explore how educators have used hip-hip as an educational tool. Through these investigations, students construct/deconstruct a hip-hop pedagogy for urban school environments.

LEDU 3212 A - Education and Social Change CRN: 5725 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Gregory Tewksbury Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description "Dare the School Build a New Social Order?" In 1932 progressive educator, George Counts posed this question. This seminar explores the connections between education and social movements for democratic change. Topics include the social, political, historical, and educational factors that enable and constrain social change, the theories inscribed in educational practices, how education and public schooling authorize participation of its citizens to shape the future. Students examine movements starting with the work of DuBois and Washington after the Civil War, the education of Native Americans, and the work of Carter G. Woodson in the Jim Crow period. They investigate education and the Civil Rights Movement and its aftermath including the multicultural education and the struggle for diversity in public schools and community institutions. Authors read include Dewey, Freire, Horton, Anderson, Greene, Giroux, Ladson-Billings, Fine, and Nieto.

LEDU 3510 A - Practicum of Education CRN: 6450 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Gregory Tewksbury Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This field-based seminar allows students to explore the everyday realities and possibilities of urban education in New York City. Through placements and field-based projects, students explore teaching and learning in NYC small schools. Writings include an ethnographic description of a school and its culture, a critical review of a school reform strategy and essays on pedagogy and curriculum. Drawing on readings from diverse disciplines, students examine how race, class, gender, sexuality, language, and ability shape public education and the struggle for equity. Readings include: Sonia Nieto, Lisa Delpit, Michelle Fine, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Maxine Greene and Paulo Freire. Note: Students registering must have at least two mornings or afternoons a week available.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 19 of 91 LEDU 3910 A - Ruane Education Practicum CRN: 6451 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Robert Perry Day(s) & Time(s): F: 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Paid internships are available for 15-20 Lang students to teach in the Accelerated Reading Program sponsored by the Carmel Hill Fund in inner-city primary schools. For permission, contact Prof. Robert Perry at [email protected] for details.

LEDU 3915 A - Fieldwork in Education CRN: 6614 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Gregory Tewksbury Day(s) & Time(s): : - Prerequisite(s Permission of the Instructor is required. Course Description This course is linked to and required for LEDU 3513: Practicum in Education. Permission of the Instructor is required.

LEDU 3951 A - Bridge to College Practicum CRN: 5726 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Tara Niraula Day(s) & Time(s): R: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course offers students the opportunity to plan and teach a weekly workshop to 11th and 12th graders enrolled in college classes at Eugene Lang College. The workshop addresses general preparation for the high school to college transition and academic issues, such as essay writing, close reading of academic texts, and research. Students explore methodological approaches to teaching, what affects achievement, and issues specifically related to the high school to college transition. In addition to class time, students are required to participate in the weekly 45 minute high school student workshop.

LEDU 4006 A - Senior Thesis Preparation CRN: 6507 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Jaskiran Dhillon Day(s) & Time(s): W: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course assists students with the development of their research proposals for their senior work. They explore the various philosophical, methodological, and ethical issues surrounding educational research and ask important questions that assist in the development of their proposals. Topics include the importance of research, selecting an area of inquiry for research, how conceptual or theoretical frameworks help to develop a research proposal or explain specific social phenomena, using the work of other scholars in one's fields of interest. his 2 credit course is required for students planning to do their senior work in the spring of 2009.

LFYW 1000 A - Writing the Essay 1- Text and Image: Literature and Visual Culture CRN: 2144 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Lauren Walsh Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description In this seminar students develop their critical reading and writing skills while exploring the ways that the contemporary visual culture informs our perceptions of society as well as our thinking and writing practices. Visual media such as photos, movies, and the Internet, are a part of our daily lives, and whether we're conscious of it or not, there is a special relationship between visuality and textuality. Through daily discussion and written response papers, the class investigates the relationships between visual media and the literary arts, the documentation of history, and modes of representation. In drafting, workshopping, and revising their essays, students form their own ideas on these topics and refine those ideas into articulate arguments. Authors may include W.G. Sebald, bell hooks, Jorge Luis Borges, Walter Benjamin, and Susan Sontag.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 20 of 91 LFYW 1000 B - Writing the Essay 1: Writing about Values CRN: 2145 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Stephen Massimilla Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course questions the fundamental issues of our lives in order to develop key analytic and argumentative skills. Students discuss what is really worth striving for and what makes a good or meaningful life. Topics include free will and determinism, questions of priorities, questions of cultural and moral relativity, the nature of friendship and love, the challenge of death, and the roles of religion and self-realization. Texts may include short works and excerpts by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Plato, Aristotle, Dante, Montaigne, Hume, Sartre, Hardy, Conrad, and Woolf, as well as Eastern and Western religious texts and topical newspaper articles.

LFYW 1000 C - Writing the Essay 1: America as Idea CRN: 2146 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Jeffrey ONeal Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description By considering various formulations of what America "means," this seminar introduces students to the practice of academic writing. Through investigations of polyform texts defining, emending, and contesting ideas of America, students develop an array of skills fundamental to critical writing: reading analytically, using evidence, developing original ideas, and crafting arguments. Topics may include citizenship, multiculturalism, democracy and equality, borders/boundaries, and national identity. Readings may include Alexander Hamilton, Walt Whitman, James Baldwin, Eric Foner, Toni Morrison, Malcolm X, Henry David Thoreau, Gloria Anzaldúa, Allen Ginsburg, and others.

LFYW 1000 D - Writing the Essay 1: Contemporary Culture and the Critical Eye CRN: 2147 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Alexios Moore Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines popular culture over the last fifty years through the lens of the critical essayist. Students examine the role of the critic in helping to define the direction and the very meaning of contemporary artistic expression. Students write essays in response to works of contemporary visual art, music, and film. Readings include essays and reviews by Clement Greenberg, Pablo Picasso, James Baldwin, Malcolm Gladwell, and Lester Bangs. Close reading and critical analysis of the texts are emphasized, as are class participation and frequent writing exercises.

LFYW 1000 E - Writing the Essay 1: Writing About Values CRN: 2148 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Stephen Massimilla Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course questions the fundamental issues of our lives in order to develop develop key analytic and argumentative skills. Students discuss what is worth striving for and what makes a good or meaningful life. Topics include free will and determinism, questions of priorities, questions of cultural and moral relativity, the nature of friendship and love, the challenge of death, and the roles of religion and self-realization. Texts may include short works and excerpts by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Plato, Aristotle, Dante, Montaigne, Hume, Sartre, Hardy, Conrad, and Woolf, as well as Eastern and Western religious texts and topical newspaper articles.

LFYW 1000 F - Writing the Essay 1: Too Cool for School CRN: 2149 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Nkosi Bandele Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This writing course encourages students to consider the ways they are taught and the unspoken assumptions about their education. To do this effectively, students hone skills for reading, analyzing, and thinking critically about structures of thought implicit in formal education. They think through complicated issues, write to examine that thinking, share their ideas, and make arguments based on their perspectives and understandings. Authors include Paulo Freire, Adrienne Rich, Mary Louise Pratt, and Susan Griffin.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 21 of 91 LFYW 1000 H - Writing the Essay 1: Too Cool for School CRN: 2151 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Nkosi Bandele Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This writing course encourages students to consider the ways they are taught and the unspoken assumptions about their education. To do this effectively, students hone skills for reading, analyzing, and thinking critically about structures of thought implicit in formal education. They think through complicated issues, write to examine that thinking, share their ideas, and make arguments based on their perspectives and understandings. Authors include Paulo Freire, Adrienne Rich, Mary Louise Pratt, and Susan Griffin.

LFYW 1000 I - Writing the Essay 1: Philosophers on the Edge CRN: 2152 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Ilana Simons Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This writing course centers on three existentialist philosophers. Students examine how Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir declared the death of God, the force of human freedom, and the importance of psychology in philosophy. By studying their bold rhetorical styles, students learn tools for essay writing, from introductory paragraphs, to argumentation, to citation. Be prepared for in-class critique, philosophical discussion, and some grammar work.

LFYW 1000 J - Writing the Essay 1: Text and Image: Literature and Visual Culture CRN: 2153 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Lauren Walsh Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description In this seminar students develop their critical reading and writing skills while exploring the ways that the contemporary visual culture informs our perceptions of society as well as our thinking and writing practices. Visual media such as photos, movies, and the Internet, are a part of our daily lives, and whether we're conscious of it or not, there is a special relationship between visuality and textuality. Through daily discussion and written response papers, the class investigates the relationships between visual media and the literary arts, the documentation of history, and modes of representation. In drafting, workshopping, and revising their essays, students form their own ideas on these topics and refine those ideas into articulate arguments. Authors may include W.G. Sebald, bell hooks, Jorge Luis Borges, Walter Benjamin, and Susan Sontag.

LFYW 1000 K - Writing the Essay 1: Travelers’ Tales CRN: 2154 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Madhu Kaza Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description In this writing course, students consider travel in relation to topics such as escapism, adventure, self-discovery, and encounter with the ‘other'. The course develops critical thinking and writing skills through close reading of texts and through a variety of writing activities including in-class exercises, response papers, short assignments, and three longer essays. Readings may include essays, stories and poems by authors such as Elizabeth Bishop, Anaïs Nin, Italo Calvino, Paul Theroux, Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski, Jamaica Kincaid, and Alain de Botton.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 22 of 91 LFYW 1000 L - Writing the Essay 1: Muckraking and American Literature CRN: 2155 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Rose Lessy Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This critical writing course compares bestselling exposes of the early 20th century —including Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills—with 20th century counterparts such as Fast Food Nation and Nickel and Dimed. Through frequent writing assignments, students consider: What does it mean to make political art? How has the creative language of political consciousness changed, and how has it stayed the same? How do the techniques of muckraking fiction and film differ from those of muckraking journalism? Throughout the process of drafting and revision, students use the rhetorical strategies of muckraking literature to enrich their own analytic writing.

LFYW 1000 M - Writing the Essay 1: Muckraking and American Literature CRN: 2385 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Rose Lessy Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This critical writing course compares bestselling exposes of the early 20th century —including Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills—with 20th century counterparts such as Fast Food Nation and Nickel and Dimed. Through frequent writing assignments, students consider: What does it mean to make political art? How has the creative language of political consciousness changed, and how has it stayed the same? How do the techniques of muckraking fiction and film differ from those of muckraking journalism? Throughout the process of drafting and revision, students use the rhetorical strategies of muckraking literature to enrich their own analytic writing.

LFYW 1000 N - Writing the Essay 1: America as Idea CRN: 2543 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Jeffrey ONeal Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description By considering various formulations of what America "means," this seminar introduces students to the practice of academic writing. Through investigations of polyform texts defining, emending, and contesting ideas of America, students develop an array of skills fundamental to critical writing: reading analytically, using evidence, developing original ideas, and crafting arguments. Topics may include citizenship, multiculturalism, democracy and equality, borders/boundaries, and national identity. Readings may include Alexander Hamilton, Walt Whitman, James Baldwin, Eric Foner, Toni Morrison, Malcolm X, Henry David Thoreau, Gloria Anzaldúa, Allen Ginsburg, and others.

LFYW 1000 O - Writing the Essay 1: Forgiveness as Power and Paradox CRN: 3524 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Anne McCarthy Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description Through writing and revision this course examines forgiveness in its ethical, political, and interpersonal manifestations. To graciously pardon an offense or selflessly forgive a wrong is perhaps the closest that a human being can come to altering the past. Disinterested forgiveness, without condition, is a cornerstone of many moral and religious traditions, and is sometimes today recommended as a therapeutic gesture. Yet, in spite of the benefits of moving on or getting over the past, forgiveness remains profoundly disruptive and difficult—perhaps even impossible in some cases. Through daily writing assignments, including three critical papers, students will articulate and revise their own views on forgiveness, in conversation with texts by Oscar Wilde, Hannah Arendt, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Jacques Derrida, and others.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 23 of 91 LFYW 1000 P - Writing the Essay 1: Ugly Feelings CRN: 3546 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Cathleen Eichhorn Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This writing-intensive course explores what theorist Sianne Ngai describes simply as "ugly feelings." From envy, fear, and hate to anger, guilt, and shame, ugly feelings or negative affects are unavoidable. Although the management of ugly feelings (through therapy and prescription drugs) is a growing industry, some cultural critics argue that we have lost sight of the positive role negative affects may play in our private and public lives. Course readings include psychological, philosophical, anthropological, and literary perspectives on the culture and politics of emotions. Through a series of analytic papers, students acquire skills to critically engage with perspectives on this controversial topic from a range of disciplinary perspectives.

LFYW 1000 Q - Writing the Essay 1: Too Cool for School CRN: 3716 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Nkosi Bandele Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This writing course encourages students to consider the ways they are taught and the unspoken assumptions about their education. To do this effectively, students hone skills for reading, analyzing, and thinking critically about structures of thought implicit in formal education. They think through complicated issues, write to examine that thinking, share their ideas, and make arguments based on their perspectives and understandings. Authors include Paulo Freire, Adrienne Rich, Mary Louise Pratt, and Susan Griffin.

LFYW 1000 R - Writing the Essay 1: Consciousness and Language CRN: 4277 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Lito Porto Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description Through intense writing this course explores the relation between language--finite, contextual, local and dialectical--and consciousness, which is perceived as existing as much beyond us as within us. Inspired and guided by great thinkers of this crucial question in various fields--etaphysics, physics, spirituality, literature, deep ecology, and others--students explore the nature of this dynamic relationship. Topics explored through writing and revision include theories of the origin and limitations of language. Texts may include Heraclitus, Lao-Tzu, St. Thomas, Nietzsche, Italo Calvino, Fritjof Capra, and Michel Serres.

LFYW 1000 S - Writing the Essay 1: Conciousness and Language CRN: 4362 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Lito Porto Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description Through intense writing this course explores the relation between language--finite, contextual, local and dialectical--and consciousness, which is perceived as existing as much beyond us as within us. Inspired and guided by great thinkers of this crucial question in various fields--etaphysics, physics, spirituality, literature, deep ecology, and others--students explore the nature of this dynamic relationship. Topics explored through writing and revision include theories of the origin and limitations of language. Texts may include Heraclitus, Lao-Tzu, St. Thomas, Nietzsche, Italo Calvino, Fritjof Capra, and Michel Serres.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 24 of 91 LFYW 1000 T - Writing the Essay 1: Muckraking and American Literature CRN: 5447 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Rose Lessy Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This critical writing course compares bestselling exposes of the early 20th century —including Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills—with 20th century counterparts such as Fast Food Nation and Nickel and Dimed. Through frequent writing assignments, students consider: What does it mean to make political art? How has the creative language of political consciousness changed, and how has it stayed the same? How do the techniques of muckraking fiction and film differ from those of muckraking journalism? Throughout the process of drafting and revision, students use the rhetorical strategies of muckraking literature to enrich their own analytic writing.

LFYW 1000 U - Writing the Essay 1: Characters in Conflict: Great Short Fiction CRN: 5512 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Jonathan Liebson Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This critical writing class explores character and conflict in moral and experimental fiction, the use of voice, language and metaphor, plus other relevant themes. Short stories are the primary texts used to develop the broader skills of close reading and clear, analytical writing. Authors are both canonical and contemporary, including Joyce, Kafka, Updike, O'Connor, Carver, Annie Proulx, and García-Márquez. Daily discussions and written response papers drive students toward building their own ideas. Essays undergo thorough drafting and revision.

LFYW 1000 V - Writing the Essay 1: Contemp Culture and the Critical Eye CRN: 5759 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Alexios Moore Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines popular culture over the last fifty years through the lens of the critical essayist. Students examine the role of the critic in helping to define the direction and the very meaning of contemporary artistic expression. Students write essays in response to works of contemporary visual art, music, and film. Readings include essays and reviews by Clement Greenberg, Pablo Picasso, James Baldwin, Malcolm Gladwell, and Lester Bangs. Close reading and critical analysis of the texts are emphasized, as are class participation and frequent writing exercises.

LFYW 1000 W - Writing the Essay 1: Travelers’ Tales CRN: 5760 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Madhu Kaza Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description In this writing course, students consider travel in relation to topics such as escapism, adventure, self-discovery, and encounter with the ‘other'. The course develops critical thinking and writing skills through close reading of texts and through a variety of writing activities including in-class exercises, response papers, short assignments, and three longer essays. Readings may include essays, stories and poems by authors such as Elizabeth Bishop, Anaïs Nin, Italo Calvino, Paul Theroux, Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski, Jamaica Kincaid, and Alain de Botton.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 25 of 91 LFYW 1300 A - Writing for Jazz Students CRN: 3251 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Anthony Tognazzini Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description In this course studentsinvestigate the art of the essay, exploring in detail the development of ideas, and the method and style by which those ideas are expressed. An essay is a vital literary form that involves reflection, critical thinking, creativity, organization, the artful application of language, and revision. Discussions focus on examining the intellectual content and rhetorical strategies of the reading assignments, with a particular emphasis on translating these principles into written work. The course is writing intensive, and involves in-class writing exercises, reading responses, three major essay assignments, peer critiques, and substantial revisions. Students write in a variety of modes, including the familiar or personal essay, the argumentative essay, the formal-critical essay.

LFYW 1300 B - Writing for Jazz Students CRN: 3252 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Anthony Tognazzini Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description In this course studentsinvestigate the art of the essay, exploring in detail the development of ideas, and the method and style by which those ideas are expressed. An essay is a vital literary form that involves reflection, critical thinking, creativity, organization, the artful application of language, and revision. Discussions focus on examining the intellectual content and rhetorical strategies of the reading assignments, with a particular emphasis on translating these principles into written work. The course is writing intensive, and involves in-class writing exercises, reading responses, three major essay assignments, peer critiques, and substantial revisions. Students write in a variety of modes, including the familiar or personal essay, the argumentative essay, the formal-critical essay.

LFYW 1500 A - Writing the Essay 2: Setting a Fine Table CRN: 2156 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Scott Korb Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This advanced writing course considers our love for and obsession with food. We indulge in it and abstain from it. It makes us sick and it heals us. We worry over where it comes from and serve it during our religious rituals. We pay a fortune for it and we give it away. Its preparation is a science and an art. Through a consideration of a variety of food writing—from primary sources, cookbooks, newspapers, magazines, and journals—this course asks students to consider the many, often contradictory, roles food has played, and continues to play, in culture, and through a process of writing, workshopping, and the all-important rewriting, to have their own hand in the kitchen of the essay writer. Readings include essays by David Foster Wallace, M.F.K. Fisher, John McPhee, Ruth Reichl, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, and Michael Pollan.

LFYW 1500 B - Writing the Essay II: Setting a Fine Table CRN: 6533 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Scott Korb Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This advanced writing course considers our love for and obsession with food. We indulge in it and abstain from it. It makes us sick and it heals us. We worry over where it comes from and serve it during our religious rituals. We pay a fortune for it and we give it away. Its preparation is a science and an art. Through a consideration of a variety of food writing—from primary sources, cookbooks, newspapers, magazines, and journals—this course asks students to consider the many, often contradictory, roles food has played, and continues to play, in culture, and through a process of writing, workshopping, and the all-important rewriting, to have their own hand in the kitchen of the essay writer. Readings include essays by David Foster Wallace, M.F.K. Fisher, John McPhee, Ruth Reichl, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, and Michael Pollan.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 26 of 91 LHIS 3006 A - Cold War Media: Technology and Culture CRN: 6499 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Orit Halpern Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines the relationship between technology, media, subjectivity, and culture between the end of World War II and the present. The particular focus is on tracing the emergence of digital technologies; mapping transformations in the relationships between bodies, machines, and minds. The course examines the history of our contemporary political and aesthetic landscape, taking up topics such as psychopharmacology, the emergence of "information" as the dominant paradigm for both economy and biology, and the legacy of Cold War obsessions with control, communication, and security. Students also develop historical approaches to thinking about technology, science, and culture. Cyborgs, aliens, and psychos are the vehicles by which students start investigating new ways to think about what histories of the past might contribute to our imaginations of the future. This course also satisfies some requirements in Culture and Media (GS, MH, DM).

LHIS 2012 A - Introduction to History of Latin America: Mexico CRN: 4642 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Paul Ross Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is a survey of Latin American history with an emphasis on the history of Mexico and the period from 1500 to the present. Students are introduced to the major pre-hispanic civilizations; European exploration and contact with indigenous populations; the history of the Conquest; the development of a distinctive colonial society; the political revolution that led to Latin American independence from Spain; politics, culture, and society in the 19th century; nationalism and mass politics in the 20th century; the development of political culture of modern Latin America against the backdrop of 20th century social transformations; and the difficult career of democracy in Latin America today. The course draws on examples from many countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Central America, but focuses on Mexico. U.S.-Latin American relations are viewed through the complicated and conflictual relationship of Mexico and the USA. This course is a pre-requisite for 3000- and 4000- level courses in Latin American history.

LHIS 2771 A - History, Fiction, and Criticism in Latin America CRN: 5868 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Paul Ross Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This seminar is devoted to a sustained reflection on a messianic rebellion from late 19th-century Bahia, Brazil, brutally suppressed by the young Brazilian Republic. These events inspired two of the most interesting texts in the canon of Latin American literature and social thought: Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertões (1902) and Mario Vargas Llosa's novel The War of the End of the World (1981). The course gradually unfolds the intertextuality between Vargas Llosa and da Cunha as we place the events of the Canudos Rebellion in historical context, as well as analyze the fictionalization of these events in The War of the End of the World. Other readings include literary criticism of both Vargas Llosa's novel and da Cunha's narrative and historical interpretations of the Canudos Rebellion. The course is co-taught by a specialist in Latin American literature. This is an integrative course for History and the Literature concentration in Literary Studies.

LHIS 2809 A - Mass Culture, Mass Society CRN: 4660 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Faisal Devji Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines the modern emergence of large groups whose members neither know each other nor have much in common beyond the specific cause or issue that draws them together. It begins by examining group forms such as the mob and crowd and moves on to thoroughly anonymous agglomerations of people. It considers whether groups should be studied only through their originating causes, or whether they are social and cultural forms in their own right. Readings include theoretical and literary texts as well as visual forms that deal with industrial capitalism, fascism, communism, and globalization. This is a ULS course, taught through Lang College. It is open to students across the University.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 27 of 91 LHIS 2844 A - History, Authority, and Power I CRN: 5151 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Neguin Yavari Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course introduces students to reading and analyzing primary sources that deal with the interaction of political life with religious sanction. It examines the role of interpretation in appropriating the past and dreaming the future. It includes texts from a variety of fields and cultural geographies, to investigate intellectual commonalities while recognizing cultural differences. Students read excerpts from the Histories of Herodotus, the Peloponnesian Wars of Thucydides, Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Politics; and the Bible, St Augustine's City of God, and the Koran. Proceeding to the medieval world, students read selections from European and Islamic mirrors for princes, and four different perspectives on the Crusades. The investigation ends in the 13th century, with the collapse of the ‘Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad and the drafting of the Magna Carta in Europe. This course satisfies some requirements in Religious Studies.

LHIS 2861 A - Jewish History From Abraham to America CRN: 5869 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Elissa Bemporad Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course surveys the history and culture of Jews from Biblical times to the post-World-War II period. Exploring their political, social and cultural journey through Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modernity, this course examines the ways in which Jews interacted with and experienced other religious and intellectual systems (Hellenism, Christianity, Islam, the Reformation, the Renaissance, Enlightenment, Socialism and Nationalism) across the empires and modern states in which they lived. Topics to be covered include: Jerusalem and the Judean State in the First and Second Temple periods; the rise of Rabbinic Judaism; the Spanish "Golden Age" and expulsion; establishment of the ghettos; women's roles in Judaism and Jewish life; emancipation; anti-Semitism; Zionism; migration to the New World. By focusing on the history of one ethnic-religious group (the Jews), students are encouraged to think critically about global phenomena, such as identity, migration, cultural accommodation, and modernization.

LHIS 3001 A - Uses of the Past: History of Remembering and Forgetting CRN: 4682 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Oz Frankel Day(s) & Time(s): F: 10:00 am - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course focuses on public history and social memory, the ways society engages the past collectively, through political discourse, oral traditions, monuments, mass culture (journalism, movies, music), art, literature, and iconography. Recently scholars have acknowledged the role of memory in organizing social life, by forging national identities, and conversely, by sustaining small, marginal, or oppositional groups. This course also satisfies requirements for Writing.

LHIS 3014 A - Asia, the Environment, and Design Matters CRN: 6455 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Carol Breckenridge Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description Energy, consumption, and emissions; pollution, health, and technology. These are topics of enormous concern in the 21st century. Design and planning around these issues affect the world health and the health of the environment. How do decisions about these issues for growing economies impact on human rights, social justice, agency, and power? This course examines recent discourses on these hotly contested debates. Course materials include the work of atomic photographers and documentary film makers, and writings by scholars, activists, and journalists.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 28 of 91 LHIS 3028 A - Oral Narratives as History CRN: 6654 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Hanna Griff-Sleven Day(s) & Time(s): F: 10:00 am - 12:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description The course focuses on practical field methods usable for academic research and public outreach at the Museum at Eldridge Street, a newly restored landmark synagogue located in the Lower East Side of New York City. Students have the opportunity to document the history, traditions, context, uses, and meanings associated with American Jewish life, with a focus on New York City. Students are trained in oral history interviewing techniques, transcription, and the evaluation of oral evidence. Students read transcriptions, listen to audio interviews, view films, and examine web-based oral histories as they evaluate how presentation impacts the creation of meaning. Each student conducts a series of interviews, with selected people associated with a case study, transcribe, and edit the materials for web publication or develop a public presentation for the Museum at Eldridge Street.

LHIS 3051 A - American Popular Culture: From Minstrels to MySpace CRN: 6612 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Timothy White Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This seminar explores how Americans have entertained themselves over the past two centuries. It uses popular culture to examine the social, political, and economic history of the United States, and the issues of race, class, and gender as they shaped American society. Using 19th century newspapers, novels, such as Uncle Tom's Cabin and live theater, such as blackface minstrelsy, it considers the origins of a distinctly American style in popular entertainment. Sources also include Yiddish theatre and vaudeville in New York, and the "wild west" shows of middle America. The course continues to trace in the 20th century, considering how popular culture intersected with mass capitalism, and how new technologies such as the nickelodeon, the feature film, and the radio transformed American entertainment. Topics include how Americans conceived of themselves, and conceived of "the other", through radio, movies, rock'n'roll, and television. Using watersheds such as the first major "talkie" (The Jazz Singer), as well as local sites of public amusement such as Coney Island, the course interrogate various forms of 20th century entertainment, with the goal of revealing both the tension and cohesion of American society. This course also satisfies some requirements in Culture and Media (RE, MH).

LHIS 3103 A - History and Memory on the Lower East Side CRN: 5871 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Anne Polland Day(s) & Time(s): M: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description At the turn of the 20th century, New York's Lower East Side was the largest Jewish city, home to 10% of World Jewry. This seminar examines the rich cultural, political, religious, and social life of the East European Jewish encounter with New York City through an analysis of the historical literature and artifacts-tenement apartments, newspaper buildings, and synagogues-that remain.

LHIS 4506 A - Readings on the Right CRN: 5872 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Julia Ott Day(s) & Time(s): M: 4:00 pm - 5:50 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course offers a workshop in historical research and writing, with an emphasis on the evolution of conservative thought and politics in the United States. Students trace continuity and change in the meaning of the "conservative" label and in the nature of the groups that identify – or are identified with –conservatism. Students encounter a range of conservative thinkers, evaluate historians' analyses of conservative movements, and produce an original research paper. This course is crosslisted with the New School for Social Research.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 29 of 91 LHIS 4514 A - Iran in Revolution: 1800 - Present CRN: 5873 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Neguin Yavari Day(s) & Time(s): T: 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm Prerequisite(s Open to juniors and seniors only. Course Description By the time the Qajar dynasty established itself in Iran in 1779, Shi'ism had already well established its religious hegemony over Iran and the 18th and 19th centuries saw further evidence of its consolidation and institutionalization. This course studies social change in Iran during the past two centuries, focusing on the interaction of political thought with religious authority and cultural transformation, to suggest that the Islamic revolution of 1979 is better explained in the lexicon of revolutionary transformation than in that of religious resurgence or a revival of the past. Readings include Bayat, Bulliet, Goldstone, Khomeini, Moaddel, Mottahedeh, Owen & Skocpol. This course is crosslisted with the New School for Social Research. Open to juniors and seniors only.

LLSL 2412 A - Terrorism in Modern Literature and Cinema CRN: 5736 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Anthony Anemone Day(s) & Time(s): F: 12:00 pm - 3:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Through readings and film screenings, lectures and discussion of a number of literary and cinematic works that represent various forms of terrorism in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas over the past 150 years, students confront the complex historical, cultural, and moral dimensions of what is turning out to be the central political and moral issue of the early 21st century. This course also satisfies requirements in Culture and Media.

LLSL 2202 A - American Literature: 1865-1914 CRN: 5729 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Nicholas Birns Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course covers major literary movements of American Literature in the period stretching from the Civil War to the rise of Modernism, from 1860 and 1920. Though often neglected in standard accounts of American literary history, this era can be seen as the crucible in which American literature was forged. The focus is on Regionalism and Naturalism and how these approaches to the American experience in writing unfolded during an era of jolting social change. Reading and discussion examine the city as site of representation as well as the depictions of states as diverse as Maine, Louisiana, and Missouri. Writers covered include Henry James, Frank Norris, Kate Chopin, Sarah Orne Jewett, Edith Wharton, Sui Sin Far, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and William Dean Howells.

LLSL 2061 A - Elements of Poetry CRN: 5727 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Henry Shapiro Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course emphasizes poetry's resources of sound (rythym, meter, rhyme, assonance, etc.), form, and structure. At the same time it gives a broad survey of how and why some basic kinds of lyric—praise poem, love poem, meditation, political poem—have both persisted and changed radically from 1600 to the present. The course pairs poems by Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Keats, Wordsworth, Shelley, Dickinson, Whitman, Williams, Stevens, Auden, Levertov, Bishop, Brooks, Pinsky, Olds, Komunyakaa.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 30 of 91 LLSL 2342 A - Renaissance Literature CRN: 5731 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Paul Kottman Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course surveys texts written in Europe during the 15th, 16th, and 17th century, including writings by Montaigne, Erasmus, Pico della Mirandola, Machiavelli, Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Hobbes. Students think retrospectively about these writings in relation to events that signal the onset of modernity, such as the scientific revolution, the exploration of the Americas, and the Reformation. They also consider ways in which these writers transform the literary and philosophical traditions that they inherit from classical antiquity and the middle ages; and think broadly about how these writings determine our own understanding of what human beings say and do, in relation to the natural world and with one another. This course also counts toward the requirements in Philosophy.

LLSL 2361 A - Major French Plays CRN: 5733 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Rose Rejouis Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Students examine variations upon traditional structures in plays from 17th century French classical theater (Corneille, Racine, Molière) and explore the boundaries of genre, adaptation, and inter-textuality in later plays. Possible authors for this analysis may include Baumarchais, Marivaux, Artaud, Sarraute, Beckett, Sartre, Ionesco, Genet, Yasmina Reza.

LLSL 2661 A - British Literature: Becoming Modern: from the Age of Victoria to Margaret Thatcher CRN: 5737 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Laura Frost Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines 19th and 20th-century British literature in its historical context, with a particular emphasis on literary innovation and the dilemmas of modernity. Topics include anti-Victorianism, imperialism, the "New Woman," World War I and II, fascism, new theories of psychology, the representation of sexuality and censorship, and the search for a language adequate to modern life. Special focus is on literary techniques that were developed in this period, including impressionism, unreliable narration, and stream of consciousness. Authors include Conrad, Ford, Joyce, Lawrence, Forster, Woolf, Rhys, Isherwood, and Barker.

LLSL 2771 A - History, Fiction, and Criticism in Latin American CRN: 5738 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Paul Ross Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This seminar is devoted to a sustained reflection on a messianic rebellion from late 19th-century Bahia, Brazil, brutally suppressed by the young Brazilian Republic. These events inspired two of the most interesting texts in the canon of Latin American literature and social thought: Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertões (1902) and Mario Vargas Llosa's novel The War of the End of the World (1981). The course gradually unfolds the intertextuality between Vargas Llosa and da Cunha as we place the events of the Canudos Rebellion in historical context, as well as analyze the fictionalization of these events in The War of the End of the World. Other readings include literary criticism of both Vargas Llosa's novel and da Cunha's narrative and historical interpretations of the Canudos Rebellion. The course is co-taught by a specialist in Latin American literature. This is an integrative course for History and the Literature concentration in Literary Studies.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 31 of 91 LLSL 3102 A - Contemporary British Novel: Writers Behaving Badly CRN: 6456 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Robin Mookerjee Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisite: at least one 2000 level Literature course, or permission of the instructor. Course Description In this course students read selections from among the most lively and controversial British novelists of the 1980s and ‘90s. During the 1950s and ‘60s, American novelists depicted the social scene in a fresh, supremely articulate voice. In recent decades, the British novel has largely taken over the verbal richness and experimentation of a Bellow or Roth. In addition, it has claimed an uninhibited voice, depicting a dark modern world peopled by characters more engaging than admirable. Considering major works by Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting), Salman Rushdie (Midnight's Children), Martin Amis (London Fields), and Angela Carter (Nights at the Circus), students place these works in their literary tradition, evaluating them as works of art and cultural testimonies. Be ready for careful, consistent reading and writing, including extended critical writing. Prerequisite: at least one 2000 level Literature course, or permission of the instructor.

LLSL 3205 A - Race and Reconstruction CRN: 5740 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Ferentz Lafargue Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: at least one 2000 level course, or permission of the instructor. Course Description Reconstruction is undoubtedly one of the most important periods in American History. Interestingly enough however, while the nation still attempts to recover from political decisions made during Reconstruction, literature of this period has struggled to remain in the American Literary Canon. American Literature has retained a fertile interest in pre-Reconstruction authors (e.g. Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville) and post-Reconstruction literary periods (e.g., The Harlem Renaissance and modernism). In an attempt to undue some of the neglect faced by this period, this course explores the fictional and non-fictional writings of authors such as Stephen Crane, W.E.B. Du Bois, Frances E.W. Harper, and Mark Twain who interrogated the vexed relationships between race and nationalism while trying to reconcile the Civil War and its aftermath. This course counts is an integrative course for Race and Ethnicity. Prerequisites: at least one 2000 level course, or permission of the instructor.

LLSL 3351 A - Russian Writing in the Margins CRN: 5741 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Val Vinokur Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: at least one 2000 level course, or permission of the instructor. Course Description This seminar focuses on some of Russia's greatest writers, most of whom were 'marginal' figures in one way or another. These include the iconic Alexander Pushkin, who boasted an African ancestor; Isaac Babel (a Jew from Odessa); Fazil Iskander (an Abkhazian Muslim); and Sergei Dovlatov (a Jewish-Armenian who immigrated to Queens). It also considers marginal literary styles, such as skaz (the folksy, orally-inflected narratives of Leskov and Zoshchenko), and several downright weird texts by Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kharms, Olesha, Erofeev, and Petrushevskaia. The course examines how estranged men, women, animals, and objects become the focus of narrative attention, and how 'marginal' writers in a "marginal" culture can become central to an appreciation of life's richness. Prerequisites: at least one 2000 level course, or permission of the instructor.

LLSL 3402 A - Elegy Living with Death, Affirming Life: A Crosscultural Exploration CRN: 5742 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Elaine Savory Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: at least one 2000 level course, or permission of the instructor. Course Description This intermediate course explores the elegy in English from Donne to the present. This intriguing and major genre has no established formal identity but is a response from the living poet to individual or mass death (such as caused by epidemics such as AIDS, war, and genocide). The act of writing an elegy is therefore an affirmation of life in the face of death, but can seem also as if feeding from the dead, which threatens to silence the poet. Yet almost every major poet has written elegies, which respond not only to death as a subject, but formally, engaging expectations for poetry in a particular culture and time as well as reflecting the poet's own aesthetic purposes. The class reads elegies from Britain, Ireland, Nigeria, South Africa, the Caribbean, the U.S.A. and other parts of the anglophone world. Prerequisites: at least one 2000 level course, or permission of the instructor.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 32 of 91 LLSL 3407 A - Voices from Prison: Writing in and about Confinement CRN: 5775 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Inessa Medzhibovskaya Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: at least one 2000 level course, or permission of the instructor. Course Description This course in literary criticism and history explores how writing responds to the ordeal of confinement. Great literature treats separation from the world as a beginning of the enlightenment that liberates the prisoner before the actual release from camp, besieged city, and enemy's captivity. Authors might include Victor Hugo, Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, Primo Levi, Jean Genet, Vladimir Nabokov, Franz Kafka, Leo Tolstoy, Albert Camus, and Michel Foucault. Critical focus is on the topics and forms in which an isolated voice speaks, and on its relationship with the audience. Prerequisites: at least one 2000 level course, or permission of the instructor.

LLST 3028 A - Reading for Writers: Journalism CRN: 5803 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Heather Chaplin Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: juniors and seniors only. Course Description This course is an introduction to ideas about what it means to be a ‘reporter' in society. Topics include what it means to get at truth and different ways writers have sought to do this over time. With an emphasis on historical perspective readings include Ida Turbell, Hunter Thompson, I.F. Stone, James Baldwin, Gay Talese, John Reed, and Eric Schlosser as well as Upton Sinclair and Emile Zola. Special focus is on changing notions of what exactly it is a journalist ought to be doing and the meaning of truth. Students keep an on going journal based on their reading and write three short papers and one final paper. Prerequisites: juniors and seniors only.

LLST 2001 A - Literary Foundations 1 CRN: 5743 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Val Vinokur Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s This course is a prerequisite for all Intermediate Writing courses. At least one Literary Foundations course is required as a prerequisite for all 3000-level Literature courses. Course Description This two-semester sequence for Literary Studies familiarizes both Writing and Literature students with key texts of world literary culture-in the West and beyond. Each course focuses on several broad themes, such as "Creation," "Suffering," "War," "Transformation," and "Self," that take in readings from the Bible to Elizabeth Bishop, from Whitman to Woolf. In addition to preparing students for more advanced offerings in Literary Studies, these courses provide a basis to consider how we became the writers and readers we are today and the tools we need to become the readers and writers of tomorrow. Students are encouraged to take Literary Foundations 1 and 2 in sequence. This course is a prerequisite for all Intermediate Writing courses. At least one Literary Foundations course is required as a prerequisite for all 3000-level Literature courses.

LLST 2001 B - Literary Foundations 1 CRN: 5801 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Inessa Medzhibovskaya Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s This course is a prerequisite for all Intermediate Writing courses. At least one Literary Foundations course is required as a prerequisite for all 3000-level Literature courses. Course Description This two-semester sequence for Literary Studies familiarizes both Writing and Literature students with key texts of world literary culture-in the West and beyond. Each course focuses on several broad themes, such as "Creation," "Suffering," "War," "Transformation," and "Self," that take in readings from the Bible to Elizabeth Bishop, from Whitman to Woolf. In addition to preparing students for more advanced offerings in Literary Studies, these courses provide a basis to consider how we became the writers and readers we are today and the tools we need to become the readers and writers of tomorrow. Students are encouraged to take Literary Foundations 1 and 2 in sequence. This course is a prerequisite for all Intermediate Writing courses. At least one Literary Foundations course is required as a prerequisite for all 3000-level Literature courses.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 33 of 91 LLST 2001 C - Literary Foundations 1 CRN: 7302 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Nicholas Birns Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s This course is a prerequisite for all Intermediate Writing courses. At least one Literary Foundations course is required as a prerequisite for all 3000-level Literature courses. Course Description This two-semester sequence for Literary Studies familiarizes both Writing and Literature students with key texts of world literary culture-in the West and beyond. Each course focuses on several broad themes, such as "Creation," "Suffering," "War," "Transformation," and "Self," that take in readings from the Bible to Elizabeth Bishop, from Whitman to Woolf. In addition to preparing students for more advanced offerings in Literary Studies, these courses provide a basis to consider how we became the writers and readers we are today and the tools we need to become the readers and writers of tomorrow. Students are encouraged to take Literary Foundations 1 and 2 in sequence. This course is a prerequisite for all Intermediate Writing courses. At least one Literary Foundations course is required as a prerequisite for all 3000-level Literature courses.

LLST 2201 A - Comic Book Storytelling CRN: 6684 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Abigail Denson Day(s) & Time(s): F: 9:30 am - 12:00 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description With the current popularity of manga and graphic memoirs, comics are a rapidly growing force in the book industry. This course gives students the opportunity to analyze, discuss, and then employ comic book storytelling techniques in their own original comics. Topics covered include comics scripting, both in the independent/graphic novel format and the format used by mainstream comic companies. Students learn to form their original story ideas into comic scripts and design page layouts for the art. The goal at the end of the semester is for each student to have a complete comic short story. No drawing experience required.

LLST 3006 A - RFW Fiction: Lost in the City CRN: 5744 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Siddhartha Deb Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: juniors and seniors only. Course Description This course looks at a series of novels depicting one of the fundamental experiences of modernity, that of trying to make a home within a great city. Using novels by Dickens, Conrad, Baldwin, Coetzee, and Zadie Smith, the course moves historically from 19th century realism to contemporary realism, bringing up issues of form and content, capitalism and urbanization, plots and narrative devices, and doppelgangers and secrets. There will be selective reading of critical and historical texts for the insights they might provide into these novels. Students will be required to make presentations, conduct research into original sources, carry out critical and creative exercises, and write a final research paper. Prerequisites: juniors and seniors only.

LLST 3016 A - RFW Non-Fiction: Dangerous Minds: The Small Magazine and American Intellect CRN: 5745 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Mark Greif Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisite: juniors and seniors only. Course Description This course examines the radical work done by the small magazine in America to transform the world in which we live. The real arguments of literary intellectuals don't make it into the New Yorker; they're fought out first in the pages of small magazines, before they ever reach the mainstream. The course studies how in the United States from the 1930s to the present, a new class of magazines like Partisan Review, Commentary, Paris Review, the New Criterion, the Baffler, and McSweeney's came to incarnate the spirits of their ages, while premiering writers who dominated literary and intellectual life—-then and today. Readings include Dwight Macdonald, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, Tom Frank, and Dave Eggers. Prerequisite: juniors and seniors only.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 34 of 91 LLST 3025 A - RFW Essays/Fiction/Poetry CRN: 5802 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Wendy Walters Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: juniors and seniors only. Course Description This seminar challenges the distinction between "critical" and "creative" writing through a close examination of forms in poetry and the essay. By looking at works that integrate genres and raise questions about the relationship of form and voice to content, students develop a set of aesthetic guidelines for writing in and across the genres. They also consider instances where writing might be called "performance" and what the implications of that designation might be. Readings include selections from *The Situation and the Story* by Vivian Gornick,* The Next American Essay*by John D'Agata, and *Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric* by Claudia Rankine; *Madeleine is Sleeping* by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, *The Shape of Content * by Ben Shahn, *The Making of Americans* by Gertrude Stein and *Leadbelly* by Tyehimba Jess. Prerequisites: juniors and seniors only.

LLST 3066 A - Modernity and Its Discontents CRN: 6452 Credits 4 Profesor(s): James Miller Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This seminar brings students together in a writing-intensive setting, to explore a variety of themes and texts that epitomize some of the critical concerns of our age. Among the issues discussed are freedom and the problem of progress; the end of slavery and the implications of European world domination; new views of human nature; the idea of the avant-garde; and the moral implications of modern war and totalitarianism. Among the authors read are Rousseau, Kant, Goethe, Robespierre, Condorcet, Olaudauh Equiano, Hegel, Marx, Dostoevsky, Joseph Conrad, Freud, Darwin, Ernst Junger, Georg Lukacs, Marinetti, Andre Breton, Jean Amery, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Foucault.

LLST 3501 A - Don Quixote and the Origins of Literary Modernity CRN: 6500 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Juan De Castro Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: at least one 2000 level course, or permission of the instructor. Course Description In this course students read and analyze Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes's classic novel, attempting to situate it within its historical period as well as to study the many innovations that make it one of the founding texts of literary and cultural modernity. In addition to reading both volumes of Don Quixote, they read selections from Alonso de Avellaneda's faux Quixote and Joan Martorell Tirant lo Blanc, as well as critical texts by, among others, Ian Watt, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, and Harold Bloom. This course is a prerequisite for all Intermediate Writing courses and for 3000 level Literature courses in Literary Studies Prerequisites: at least one 2000 level course, or permission of the instructor.

LLST 4403 A - Literature of War CRN: 6556 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Randy Fertel Day(s) & Time(s): R: 4:00 pm - 5:50 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: juniors and seniors only. Course Description This course in World Literature surveys some of the great myths that originated in the Mediterranean basin. After distinguishing between myths, epics, and fairy tales, and will focus our attention on narrative journeys, beginning with Gilgamesh (3rd millenium B.C.E.), and proceeding to Isis and Osiris. We will spend time with Homer's Odyssey and Dante's Divine Comedy. Since many of these classic narratives of journeys are informed by a religious or quasi-religious underpinning, it may seem surprising that mythical journeys continue into the "secular" 19th and 20th centuries. In the course of our readings we will have to strive for a new definition of the term "myth" and arrive, by way of comparison with the older narratives, at a more nuanced understanding of who we are today. Modern works will include Joseph Conrad, The Heart oft Darkness; Alejo Carpentier, The Lost Steps;Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky; Andre Brink, The Other Side of Silence; Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses; and Franz Kafka, The Castle. Our discussions of these texts will take the form of an intellectual journey, in quest of new insights into ourselves and contemporary culture. Prerequisites: juniors and seniors only.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 35 of 91 LLST 4407 A - Mythical Journeys: Then and Now CRN: 6557 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Ernestine Schlant Bradley Day(s) & Time(s): M: 4:00 pm - 5:50 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: juniors and seniors only. Course Description Much of literature treats of intense experience; war literature by its very nature deals with some of the most intense experience imaginable. In this course we will be concerned less with what the politicians and generals did and said, and more with what soldiers experience, how it shapes them and how war poets, memoirists and novelists shape their raw, chaotic experience. Interdisciplinary approaches to the material include myth (of the hero), post-colonial theory, and trauma psychology. Documentary and feature films will be watched and discussed. There will be weekly short (2-3 pp) papers posted on-line (you will be allowed not to 3) and an 8-10 pp integrative final paper. Philip Caputo, Jonathan Schell and Wayne Karlin have in the past visited class to talk about their experience and one will probably join us this year. Prerequisites: juniors and seniors only.

LLST 4513 A - Eros, Kinship, Culture CRN: 6592 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Paul Kottman Day(s) & Time(s): W: 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisite: juniors and seniors only. Course Description This course consider ways in which love, or eros, has been represented as incompatible with, yet always born from, the context of social, civic or political life. To frame the problem, students read texts in philosophy and social theory that treat this problem. But the guiding model is the most significant poetic-literary treatments of the problem: the myth of Romeo and Juliet, from Ovid through medieval courtly love poems, to Shakespeare and modern novels. Readings have at least two aims: to gauge the conditions for a desired, livable human attachment without the cooperation and mediation of family, society, or culture; and to consider why (and how) the fate of such attachments are pre-dominantly represented as tragic. Prerequisite: juniors and seniors only.

LLSW 2030 B - Introduction to Poetry: Voicing the Personal and Political CRN: 5807 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Wendy Walters Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: Writing the Essay, or permission of the instructor. Course Description Though many people don't care to or are afraid to read poetry for fear that they won't understand it, poetry can transform the way we recognize the connection between our own emotions and the world in which we live in deep and lasting ways. Because poetry is one of the least profitable forms of creative writing, it tends to be an extremely innovative and flexible genre. With these suppositions in mind, this course explores methodologies in reading and writing poetry, and serves as a broad introduction to the vast possibilities within the genre. In addition to writing about one's own experience, assignments explore the process of developing content around historical, fictional and philosophical subjects. Writing assignments are shared and critiqued in-class several times throughout the semester. Reading assignments include poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, Aimé Césaire, Lyn Hejinian, René Char, Tomas Tranströmer, Karen Volkman, A.R. Ammons. Prerequisites: Writing the Essay, or permission of the instructor.

LLSW 3500 A - Intermediate Fiction: Experiments with Genre CRN: 5813 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Siddhartha Deb Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Prerequisite: a grade of B or higher in Introduction to Fiction, or permission of the Chair. Course Description This course builds on the skills acquired at the introductory level by asking students to experiment with a range of genres and styles, including the Gothic, the bildungsroman, dystopic fiction, and detective fiction. Focusing on novels by Italo Calvino, David Mitchell, and Haruki Murakami, the course requires students to read with close attention, analyze the characteristics of a genre, and participate in numerous writing exercises. Students will write four short pieces in different genres and styles and present a portfolio at the end of the course. Prerequisite: a grade of B or higher in Introduction to Fiction, or permission of the Chair.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 36 of 91 LLSW 3510 A - Intermediate Non-Fiction: Style, Tone, Prose in Personal Culture CRN: 5814 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Elizabeth Kendall Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: a grade of B or higher in the Introduction to Non-fiction, or permission of the chair. Course Description Students focus on the theme of Personal Culture—their own, and that of selected nonfiction writers. After considering what constitutes a personal culture, they study the works of movie, music, fashion, dance, and sports critics. They write reviews of and personal pieces about selected New York City events. Travel writing, also a highly personal form of fact-based narrative, is read and written, as is comedy writing, one of the most challenging kinds of fact-based narrative. The final unit involves what might be called the "sum" of personal culture expression: the personal essay/memoir. The emphasis is on the tone, style, prose rhythms, beginnings and endings, and the search for, and enhancement of, each student's own inimitable writing voice. Authors include various movie critics, Lester Banks, Geoff Dyer, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Elizabeth Gilbert, Mikhail Zoshchenko, James Baldwin, Czeslaw Milosz. Guest critics and editors are invited to speak. Prerequisites: a grade of B or higher in the Introduction to Non-fiction, or permission of the chair.

LLSW 3500 B - Intermediate Fiction: Narrative in the Short Story CRN: 5752 Credits 4 Profesor(s): William James Wallenstein Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisite: a grade of B or higher in Introduction to Fiction, or permission of the Chair. Course Description Half literature seminar and half writing workshop, this course acquaints students with accomplished works of modern and contemporary short fiction and cultivates the ability to create such fiction. The reader's focus, whether considering the work of an established writer or of a classmate, is on those narrative effects that are most resistant to analysis, on the quiddities of a particular voice, tone, style—on what makes an episode or story click and where its amusement and pathos lie. The writer's goal, building on the efforts of the first weeks, is the achievement by term's end of a finished, roughly 6000-word story—and the resolve in the following term to write another. The reading list may include stories by Chekhov, Joyce, Porter, Mishima, Waugh, Spark, Barthelme, Bernhard, Trevor, Lydia Davis, and Diane Williams Prerequisite: a grade of B or higher in Introduction to Fiction, or permission of the Chair.

LLSW 3992 A - Free Press: Reporter/Photographer CRN: 5755 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Robert Buchanan Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Students work on the Lang College student newspaper, Inprint, as reporters, editors, designers, photographers, and publicists. Credits are determined by level of responsibility and workload. Critical readings in journalism are a component of the course. This course is graded pass/unsatisfactory and is repeatable to maximum of 18 credits.

LLSW 2505 B - Introduction to Journalism: Basic Instincts CRN: 5810 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Sean Elder Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: Writing the Essay or permission of the Chair. Course Description This course emphasizes the basic skills a journalist needs to tell a story. Drawing on examples from texts by classic reporters like HL Mencken and Joseph Mitchell; New Journalists such as Joan Didion and Norman Mailer; and contemporary practitioners, including Susan Orlean and Mike Davis, students will practice observation, interviewing, research and opinion writing. Shorter writing pieces point the way toward a longer final paper that employs all of these tools. Prerequisites: Writing the Essay or permission of the Chair.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 37 of 91 LLSW 2505 C - Introduction to Journalism CRN: 6616 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Charles Taylor Day(s) & Time(s): F: 10:00 am - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: Course Description This course introduces students to a variety of journalistic criticism through class discussion of selected readings and writing assignments. The goal is to provide a foundation of artistic, cultural, and political criticism while students work to hone their critical voice. Working from the premise that the most perceptive judgment arises from evoking the subject under consideration-in its complexity or simplicity-students explore the dual function of the critic: to develop an individual voice while expressing a hungry yet skeptical curiosity of the world. In both reading and writing assignments, students are encouraged to consider the larger cultural and social context. One focus is the role of the critic in an age where hype and publicity threaten to overwhelm the critical voice. Readings include pieces on both politics and culture. Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Writing the Essay or permission of the Chair.

LLSW 2864 A - Spanish Surrealism: The Flowering of a Generation CRN: 5750 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Mark Statman Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines the early days of Spanish surrealism, from the early 20's through the early 30's. It includes the work of different artists and their various collaborations, but the focus is on the poetry and plays of Federico Garcia Lorca, the visual arts of Salvador Dali, and the films of Luis Bunuel. Students read, examine, and view a variety of works and, the discussions include the influences of other artistic, political, and cultural movements, as well as the (unavoidable) gossip of the period. Students write 3 short critically reflective responses and complete one final scholarly/creative project of his/her choosing. This is a ULS course, taught through Lang. It is open to students across the University.

LLSW 2010 A - Introduction to Non-Fiction: The Argument Essay CRN: 5746 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Mark Greif Day(s) & Time(s): F: 12:00 pm - 3:20 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisite: Writing the Essay or permission of the chair. Course Description This workshop treats the art of the argument essay. Whether it's a polemic, a manifesto, a diatribe, a piece of invective, or simply the gentle art of convincing someone of something they don't want to believe, there is a certain kind of writing which deliberately tries to overturn what the reader already thinks. The arguer wants to change the way people see, then to change the way we live—-as individuals, as a society, or in a political community. Students practice just such writing, and look at great examples of the arts of counter-intuitive thinking and skillful and surprising argument. Participants are expected to write and revise two argument essays over the course of the semester. Prerequisite: Writing the Essay or permission of the chair.

LLSW 2010 B - Introduction to Non-Fiction: Taste and the Formation of the Self CRN: 5805 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Marco Roth Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: Writing the Essay, or permission of the Chair. Course Description As students develop and hone their critical and creative non-fiction writing, they consider how one becomes a SELF, develops strength of character, lives fully in a community of diverse tastes and enthusiasms. Using short exercises students learn to analyze and defend their reactions to works of fiction. Then they move from books and culture to the narration of experience and modes of self-discovery through encounters with art. Readings include critical and autobiographical texts: David Hume, William Hazlitt, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Randall Jarrell, and Montaigne, Goethe, Stendhal, Keats, Rilke, Henry Adams, Michel Leiris. The course may also cover recent controversies over the standards of truth in non-fiction writing and how to review autobiographies. Prerequisites: Writing the Essay, or permission of the Chair.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 38 of 91 LLSW 2020 A - Introduction to Fiction: Other Worlds are Possible CRN: 5747 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Siddhartha Deb Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: Writing the Essay, or permission of the chair. Course Description This course considers the task of creating other worlds by considering both the possibilities and the limitations within which writers work. It offers a historical overview of fictional form, looking closely into novels by Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, and Jennifer Egan, and selections from Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Bolano, Edward P. Jones, and others. The readings are complemented by discussions, presentations, and critiques, while written work include analysis and exercises. Students develop techniques of close reading and fundamental aspects of storytelling such as narration, point of view, characterization, plot, and dialogue. Students complete a short fiction piece that demonstrates some of the ideas and techniques discussed. Prerequisites: Writing the Essay, or permission of the chair.

LLSW 2020 B - Introduction to Fiction: Storytelling: Analysis and Interpretation CRN: 5748 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Albert Mobilio Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: Writing the Essay, or permission of the chair. Course Description In this workshop students study and practice the art of storytelling. In order to deepen understanding of the relationship between authorial intention and reader response, they read work by established authors (as well as one another) and offer written and oral analysis that details the mechanics of literary technique. In the reading of canonical and contemporary authors drawn from a diverse range of national literatures, they parse the literary process from inspiration through execution to reception. The course refines the perceptual ability as readers so that students employ this heightened awareness as writers. This discussion—focusing on form, style, narrative voice—informs each student's project: a sustained work of fiction by semester's end. Students also gain a methodology for textual interpretation and analysis that is necessary and applicable in their study of all the liberal arts. Prerequisites: Writing the Essay, or permission of the chair.

LLSW 2020 C - Introduction to Fiction: Reading with Writing CRN: 5806 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Alexandra Chasin Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: Writing the Essay, or permission of the chair. Course Description This course pairs reading with writing. Readings represent a wide range of formal techniques, and writing exercises constitute directed opportunities to experiment with such techniques. Readings include work by Gertrude Stein, Samuel Beckett, Ben Marcus, Diane Williams, Ishmael Reed, Jessica Hagedorn, Salman Rushdie, Michael Martone, Jonathan Safran Foer, and selected popular culture sources. Formal elements in play include: fragments, white space, spelling, diacritical marks, numbers, voice, the limits of sense, and incorporation of non-fictional (poetic, musical, visual, historical, etc.) materials into fictional work. Prerequisites: Writing the Essay, or permission of the chair.

LLSW 2020 D - Introduction to Fiction: Radical Aesthetics CRN: 6615 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Joshua Sessions Day(s) & Time(s): F: 10:00 am - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: Writing the Essay Course Description The classic realist conceit in fiction often assumes a uniformity of style and subject matter. Contained within this assumption is an idea of "truth" that legitimizes certain behaviors, experiences, and aspirations while dismissing and devaluing others. This course challenges conventional wisdom about what a story is and what a story does. Through a wide range of readings, including William Burroughs, Roberto Bolano, Samuel Beckett, Lydia Davis, Grace Paley, and Barry Hannah, the course explores the way moral and political ideas are conveyed through aesthetic choices. With the aid of exercises, discussions and critiques, students explore the wide range of fictional modes in their own writing. Prerequisites: Writing the Essay

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 39 of 91 LLSW 2030 A - Introduction to Poetry:Poetry in Dialogue: Influences, Traditions, and Aesthetics CRN: 5749 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Jennifer Firestone Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: Writing the Essay, or permission of the instructor. Course Description This course explores the relationships among poems spanning different time periods and reflecting diverse traditions and aesthetics. By locating each poem in its unique personal, historical and/or sociopolitical context, students come to understand the shared formal and philosophical choices that informed the poet's process and construction of his/her poem. Students examine the relationships between the poems of Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg, Gertrude Stein, Lyn Hejinian and Harryette Mullen, William Carlos Williams and Basho, and the reinvention of Shakespeare's sonnet through the poems of Ted Berrigan and Bernadette Mayer. Students develop relationships with these poets' work by practicing some of the same innovative approaches to their own writing. Coursework includes critical writings and experimental exercises, reviewing poetry readings, and creating a portfolio of revised poems. Prerequisites: Writing the Essay, or permission of the instructor.

LLSW 2040 A - Introduction to Playwriting CRN: 6630 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Elana Greenfield Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: Writing the Essay or permission of the instructor. Course Description This course begins at the beginning, employing a series of exercises to arrive at characters, settings, scenes, and eventually, a one-act play. Student plays are read and discussed in class as they are written and revised. Students also read and discuss a variety of professional one-act plays to discover individual voice and to understand structure. If this course is used toward The Arts, all Arts requirements govern, except that all LLSW prerequisites and minimum grade requirements apply for all students. For Literary Studies Writing concentrators, all Literary Studies requirements govern, including core requirements, and playwriting can be a secondary genre only. Prerequisites: Writing the Essay or permission of the instructor.

LLSW 2505 A - Introduction to Journalism: Cultivating a Beginner's Mind CRN: 5809 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Sarah Saffian Leerhsen Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Prerequisite: Writing the Essay 1 (or permission of Chair). Course Description This course develops students as rigorous, curious observers of the world, arming them with the tools to become resourceful reporters and writers of originality and flair. Students explore various genres of journalistic writing by both studying the voices of established writers and cultivating their own. Through lively discussions of the readings, workshop of a main reporting/writing project (along with a few shorter assignments), and a semester-long critical analysis of the publication of their choice, students train in gathering information doggedly and thoughtfully, examine journalistic ethics, learn the nuts and bolts of the form, and strive to make every word count. This course must be taken either before or simultaneously with the New School Free Press, the student newspaper course, and is a prerequisite for all intermediate and advanced journalism classes. This course also satisfies some requirements in Culture and Media in the MH track. Prerequisite: Writing the Essay 1 (or permission of Chair).

LLSW 3025 A - Intermediate Journalism: The Iraq War as Nonfiction Story CRN: 5751 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Andrew Meier Day(s) & Time(s): F: 10:00 am - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisite: a grade of B or higher in Introduction to Journalism, or permission of the Chair. Course Description This course is a critical reading of America's war in Iraq as a nonfiction "story." It examines a broad range of nonfiction narratives of the war from cartoons to memoirs to political and military narratives, as well as blogs and photographic and videotaped accounts. Close textual reading addresses questions of narrative (first v. third person, use of profiles, literary nonfiction v. military reporting) and reporting (sourcing, balance, ethics). Readings are followed by weekly short writing assignments (2-3 pages in length), in order to understanding the range, and limitations, of war reporting. Students also write a final, 10-page "war report," grounded in journalistic research: analytic reading, interviews, electronic sources, state and private archives, and library work. Prerequisite: a grade of B or higher in Introduction to Journalism, or permission of the Chair.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 40 of 91 LLSW 3046 A - Release CRN: 5812 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Jill Magi Day(s) & Time(s): F: 10:00 am - 12:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Students learn about literary journal publishing through researching contemporary practices in the field and by editing content for the Eugene Lang College literary arts journal, Release, which is designed and produced by students at Parsons. The editorial process includes developing goals for the journal, soliciting submissions, reading and evaluating works submitted, and responding to authors. Students also learn the basic vocabulary of journal production and publishing. Current trends in literary editing are discussed, including field trips to presses, organizations that support literary arts publishing, and class visits from a range of New York city based literary arts editors—from "do-it-yourself" practices, letterpress, and book arts, web-based journals, university and college-based publications, and journals with a larger, more mainstream readership in mind. This research and activity-related course is repeatable. The total number of credits a student can earn in an activity-related course is 24.

LLSW 3520 A - Intermediate Poetry: Beginning with Whitman and Ending Today CRN: 5753 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Mark Statman Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: a grade of B or higher in the Introduction to Poetry, or permission of the chair. Course Description This intermediate poetry ccourse focuses on students developing in greater depth the poetry writing and reading practices started in introductory classes, with particular attention to questions of form and revision. Students continue to develop their poetry portfolios and to write critically about the poets on the syllabus, as well as present to the class the work of a poet not on the syllabus. Readings begin with Whitman and then follow Whitman's influence on the schools of poetry that emerged in American poetry through the 20th century and until today. The focus of these readings is on particular poets from those schools rather than a survey, so that students develop a sense of the voice of those particular poets (for example, Ezra Pound from the early Moderns, William Carlos Williams from the late Moderns, Gregory Corso from the Beats, Adrienne Rich from the Confessional/Feminist poets, etc). Prerequisites: a grade of B or higher in the Introduction to Poetry, or permission of the chair.

LLSW 3777 A - Maintaining Community Online CRN: 6501 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Karl Julius Mendonca Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description Students operate and maintain the on-line version of the Lang student newspaper. They explore options of online community- building, develop and exploit resources of the web for media expression, launch content prototypes or formats, and study conceptually the role of new media in promoting community identity and action. They also work on the New School's fledgling web radio station. Course work includes the design of a comprehensive strategy incorporating traditional and non-traditional media and learning to harness Web applications and content-management systems to achieve these ends.

LLSW 3991 A - Free Press: Senior Editors CRN: 5754 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Robert Buchanan Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Students work on the Lang College student newspaper, Inprint, as reporters, editors, designers, photographers, and publicists. Credits are determined by level of responsibility and workload. Critical readings in journalism are a component of the course. This course is graded pass/unsatisfactory and is repeatable to maximum of 18 credits.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 41 of 91 LLSW 3993 A - Free Press: Deputy Editor CRN: 5756 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Robert Buchanan Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Students work on the Lang College student newspaper, Inprint, as reporters, editors, designers, photographers, and publicists. Credits are determined by level of responsibility and workload. Critical readings in journalism are a component of the course. This course is graded pass/unsatisfactory and is repeatable to maximum of 18 credits.

LLSW 4000 A - Advanced Fiction: the Art of Storytelling CRN: 5757 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Albert Mobilio Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisite: a grade of B+ or higher in Intermediate Fiction, or permission of the Chair. Course Description In this workshop students study and practice the art of storytelling. In order to explore the relationship between authorial intention and reader response, they read work by established authors (as well as one another) and offer written and oral analysis that details the mechanics of literary technique. Students should have an existing work of fiction underway. Completed by mid-semester, this story is discussed and refined within the context of assigned readings. The workshop process develops tools of self-editing and revision which are employed refining this sustained work of fiction. Students sharpen their methodology for textual interpretation and analysis and thus deepen the relationship between their own practice as writers and all the liberal arts. Prerequisite: a grade of B+ or higher in Intermediate Fiction, or permission of the Chair.

LLSW 4010 A - Advanced Non-Fiction: A Sense of Place CRN: 5758 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Elizabeth Kendall Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisite: a grade of B+ or higher in Intermediate Non-Fiction, or permission of the Chair. Course Description Travel writers, memoirists, historians, biographers, and novelists, convey a strong sense of place, using observed sensory details, opinion, and historical information. In this course students construct a sense of place on the page, and then through reading and practice, explore how to people it (character description and development), tell their stories (narrative structure), make the prose move (prose rhythm), and negotiate the tone and overall consciousness of the telling (narrative persona). Assignments include writing several drafts of short travel pieces, neighborhood profiles, historical quests, and longer essays. Authors include James Baldwin, John Berger, Elizabeth Bishop, Joseph Brodsky, Italo Calvino, Geoff Dyer, Patrick Leigh Fermor, C.L.R. James, Phillip Lopate, Primo Levi, John McPhee, Adrienne Kennedy. Prerequisite: a grade of B+ or higher in Intermediate Non-Fiction, or permission of the Chair.

LLSW 4020 A - Advanced Poetry CRN: 5823 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Brenda Shaughnessy Day(s) & Time(s): F: 2:00 pm - 5:20 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisite: a grade of B+ or higher in Intermediate Poetry, or permission of the Chair. Course Description This workshop is for experienced poets to hone their writing skills and expand the imaginative boundaries in their poems. Students are expected to have a fluent handling of the poetic devices of meter, rhyme, the line, the stanza, and metaphor. These basic skills are the foundation from which to pursue the more unruly and esoteric aspects of poetic expression: voice, tone, stylistic development, aesthetics, symbologies, hermeticism, ellipticalism, narrative, and perspective. The coursework consists of workshop, with required reading that includes poetry by contemporary masters and critical work in poetics. Discussion topics include: clarity vs. mystery, politics, autobiography, lies and truth, developing a poetic style and voice. In addition to the workshop and reading/discussion elements of the course, students address the practicalities and realities of a writer's life. Literary endeavors such as magazine submission and publishing, MFA programs, continuing creative work post-college, writing communities and the literary industries are explored. Students are expected to have substantial self-motivation as well as compassionate dedication to the work of peers. Prerequisite: a grade of B+ or higher in Intermediate Poetry, or permission of the Chair.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 42 of 91 LLSW 4025 A - Advanced Journalism: Writing to Change the World CRN: 5824 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Jennifer Baumgardner Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisite: a grade of B+ or higher in Intermediate Journalism, or permission of the Chair. Course Description This course builds the practical skills and connections required for good journalism while exploring the ways that great writers have transformed politics and culture. Through extensive reading and writing, students grapple with how one remains true to journalistic ethics while promoting social justice. Topics include the role of the journalist in society; developing style and voice; writing an incisive op-ed for print and for blog; uncovering stories; the power of the personal narrative; and creating frames and metaphors that quickly convey a value system. Readings range from old-school Leftists such as Katha Pollitt and George Lakoff to young feminist blogger Courtney Martin. The course includes workshopping, one-on-one conferencing, and visits from guests such as Nation-columnist Katha Pollitt, Betsy Reed (Editor, The Nation), Marcia Gillespie (Editor Emerita of Ms. magazine), and younger bloggers such as Jessica Valenti. Prerequisite: a grade of B+ or higher in Intermediate Journalism, or permission of the Chair.

LLSW 4050 A - Writing for Publication CRN: 5825 Credits 4 Profesor(s): David Sobel Day(s) & Time(s): F: 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm Prerequisite(s Permission of the chair. Course Description Advanced students, selected for their high promise reflected in work through the full sequence of writing classes, work on a single long piece of writing under the tutelage of a professional writer/editor, acting as a mentor. From original proposal to first and final drafts, the focus is on the collaborative editorial process, and on offering a "real world" understanding of writing in a professional context and under professional demands. Students complete this course both with a polished and accomplished piece of writing and with a sophisticated comprehension of the processes of assigning, ediing, and publishing fiction and nonfiction. This course may be taken as an elective or as a senior work option. Permission of the chair.

LMUS 2010 A - Fundamentals of Western Music CRN: 5647 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Ivan Raykoff Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is a study of basic concepts and skills in Western music theory, with a focus on learning to read and write music notation in both treble and bass clefs. Topics include intervals and ratios; basic ear-training skills; music terminology; melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic structures; traditional musical forms; and beginning composition and analysis. The course focuses on ?common practice? tonality, but also considers other historical developments in the organization of musical sound. The course is designed for students who do not yet read music notation and/or students who wish to improve their listening skills and understanding of music theory.

LMUS 2016 A - The Musicals of Rogers and Hammerstein CRN: 5648 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Faye-Ellen Silverman Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description The 1940s and '50s are often considered the golden age of American musical theater. Two creators who shaped this era were the songwriting duo Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II. This course focuses on their most successful collaborations: "Oklahoma," "Carousel," "South Pacific," "The King and I," and "The Sound of Music." It focuses primarily on the music Rogers composed, although the use of lyrics, the construction of the shows, and their contributions to theatrical history are also discussed.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 43 of 91 LMUS 2021 A - Romanticism in Music and Literature CRN: 6503 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Henry Shapiro Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description With the changes in society which the French revolution brought about came comparable changes in the arts-- new attitudes, emphases, and passions and new forms, structures, and genres to embody changed subject common matter. This course explores some of these changes by pairing great works of Romantic music and literature that have common content. Topics and pairings include: "Storm and Stress" in Pre-Romanticism: works by Hayden, Mozart, T. Gray and Goethe; The New Pantheism: works by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Holderlin, Beethoven, Schubert; From Nature to Art for Art's sake: works by Chopin, Keats, and Baudelaire; The New Great Man: works by Hugo, Byron, Mendelssohn, Berlioz; Romanticism produces social and domestic realism: works by Balzac, G. Eliot, Schumann, Verdi. This course also satisfies requirements for Literature and the Literature requirement Writing in Literary Studies.

LMUS 2200 A - Introduction to World Music CRN: 4582 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Evan Rapport Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course explores some of the many ways that people perform, experience, enjoy, and discuss music around the world. Case studies of specific culture areas and significant musicians are tied to local ethnography projects, enabling students to take advantage of the stunning diversity of global music traditions practiced in New York City. The course also covers basic elements of music and terminology, so previous musical experience and familiarity with Western music notation are not required.

LNGC 3000 B - Teaching Learning Seminar I CRN: 5235 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Mark Larrimore Day(s) & Time(s): F: 10:00 am - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course trains students to become Seminar Fellows to the First Year Program. The Seminar Fellows work with a faculty advisor to help their freshman advisees through the transition to college. They also teach and the First Year Workshop. Training includes developing good listening skills, facilitation of group discussions, and the presentation of factual information on a variety of topics, both academic and personal. Prerequisite: participation in this class is by permission only; students must have taken LNGC 3100 ("How People Learn"). Advising note: credits count as non-liberal arts credits. Students may apply up to 30 credits of non-liberal arts credits towards the 120 credits required for the bachelor's degree.

LNGC 3006 A - Senior Research Practicum CRN: 3954 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Brita Servaes Day(s) & Time(s): M: 3:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisite: Students must be working on their Senior Work proposals. Course Description This course is for students thinking about an independent senior project. It provides assistance during the proposal-writing stage. Seniors considering an independent senior project are strongly encouraged to take this course. Students review and apply basic and advanced academic research skills and critical thinking to benefit their senior projects: assess the strengths and limitations of different types of information resources and media, evaluate and match resources to research projects, and learn to structure and implement research strategies appropriate to various research projects. The course also addresses selected social, cultural, political, financial, and legal aspects of information and their impact on research. Prerequisite: Students must be working on their Senior Work proposals.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 44 of 91 LNGC 3901 A - Internship Seminar: Introduction CRN: 1051 Credits 1 TO 6 Profesor(s): Jemima Gedeon Day(s) & Time(s): M: 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description The introductory internship is open to students with 30 or more credits and with a cumulative GPA of at least 2.5. Students must identify their goals and prepare a résumé and then meet with the internship director during the advisement period (the semester before enrollment) to discuss site options. The primary focus of this seminar is to provide students with additional career exploration and assessment. Students are also required to complete the Internship Program's Professional Development Workshop Series the semester before enrollment, which is comprised of 3 workshops: Resume & Cover Letter Writing, Interviewing Skills, and Job/Internship Search. After the initial advising session, students contact organizations, schedule interviews, select a site, and negotiate the details of the internship assignment. The program is challenging and rigorous: interns attend 5 required seminars, submit 3 journals and Internship/Career Education Portfolio, plan a presentation, produce a final paper or project, and complete additional requirements. The Introductory Internship is designed to orient students to the Lang internship philosophy and provide guidance, structure, and support to students as they integrate textbook theory with real-life professional experience. The Introductory Internship is designed to orient students to the Lang Internship Program philosophy while providing guidance, structure, and support to students as they continue integrate textbook theory with real-life professional experience.

LNGC 1401 A - Africa in New York CRN: 5761 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Hylton White Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description Africans have shaped the collective life of New York City since its founding. This course explores the traces of that history in our surroundings and the continuing impact of migrants from African countries. The aim is to foster a critical awareness of issues of race, migration, and culture, through discussions of relevant readings and through hands-on research in the city. This course is taught by a faculty member in Anthropology.

LNGC 1411 A - Drawing (in) Space CRN: 5762 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Simonetta Moro Day(s) & Time(s): F: 3:00 pm - 6:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description When dealing with representational drawing - of an object, a street scene or the human body - we are to face a number of problems. Where to begin? What materials should I use? How do I keep the right proportions? What about foreshortening and perspective? Finally, how do I place the subject - any subject - into space, making a convincing interpretation of what I see? This studio course provides the basic tools ad methods to answer these questions, and to translate the object of our perception into expressive lines on a flat surface. New York City will be explored both as a subject matter and a receptacle of extraordinary art collections to draw from; studio practice includes life drawing. Specific readings on the techniques and history of drawing will be part of your learning process.

LNGC 1421 A - Veiling and Revealing: Media, Gender, and Obsession CRN: 5763 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Tuija Parikka Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course focuses on the politics of the veil and various masks uses to hide or reveal something about ourselves. Students explore the practices of veiling and revealing in relation to gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality, investigating the topic primarily through media discourses, including film, television, newspapers, magazines, photographs, radio, novels, and cartoons. The aim is to practice addressing controversial issues in constructive ways in dialogue with others in a seminar setting, formulate critical questions and arguments in writing and in speech, learning how to analyze theoretical and empirical texts, and using knowledge to command a particular area of investigation in depth. This course is taught by a faculty member in Culture and Media.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 45 of 91 LNGC 1431 A - City Schools, City Life CRN: 5764 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Maria Torre Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course explores the challenges facing urban schooling. Using an interdisciplinary approach and with a particular focus on New York City, students examine the socioeconomic, historical, and political trends that are shifting urban landscapes and study how these trends impact patterns of immigration, housing, employment, and the availability of public services, with a specific focus on public education. Topics include the purpose of schooling in urban environments, how the city understands itself in relation to young people; and the rights youth have to city spaces as citizens. This course is taught by a faculty member in Education Studies.

LNGC 1441 A - Women and Gender in Early America CRN: 5765 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Julia Ott Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course surveys American women's social, political, and economic experiences from the earliest colonial contacts until 1900, focusing on variation according to race, ethnicity, region and class. Topics include women's paid and unpaid economic contributions, socialization and gender role, religious and reform movements, legal status, family life, sexuality, gender science and women's health, and the growth of organized women's rights movements. The use of gender as an analytic category is introduced by examining gender's role in shaping racial, ethnic and class categories and identities. Students read primary and secondary sources to understand how historians recover and interpret history. This course is taught by a faculty member in History.

LNGC 1442 A - History of the Holocaust CRN: 5766 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Federico Finchelstein Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course surveys the historical background and multi-dimensional developments of the Nazi extermination of the European Jews, including the different histories and experiences of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders in Europe and the Americas. Topics include the history of anti-Semitism, Nazi racial ideology, social, political, cultural, and intellectual developments in Germany and Europe as well as historical interpretations of the Nazi Genocide. This course is taught by a faculty member in History.

LNGC 1444 A - Women and Men in War and Peace CRN: 6686 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Mara Lazda Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines how gender has shaped—and continues to shape—global interactions among states and individuals in peace and war. It begins with a theoretical reevaluation of how and why many cultures associate femininity with peace work, but masculinity with militarism. These theoretical discussions are then applied to global and civil conflicts such as World War II and fascism, military dictatorship in Argentina and the resistance of the mothers of the disappeared, and the ethnic cleansing in the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The course concludes with an examination of recent discussions of conflict, occupation, and peace in Darfur and Afghanistan. By studying peace and war through the analytical lens of gender, students reconsider not only traditional understandings of femininity and masculinity in conflict but also how factors such as class, nation, and race interact with gender in attempts to build peace.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 46 of 91 LNGC 1451 A - Mutiny! The Bounty CRN: 5767 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Elaine Savory Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course sets out from a single text to discover the ways in which particular historical and geographic knowledges, suggested by the text's specific clues, enrich our reading. The text is the title poem in Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott's poem collection The Bounty. Whilst always keeping the poem in mind, students make a journey around the world and from the late 18th century to the end of the 20th century to discover the knowledge needed to return to his poem with a better understanding. Students follow the H.M.S Bounty on her ill-fated voyage to the South Seas, and discover the world which brought about that voyage and the eventual transportation of the breadfruit to the Caribbean, as well as reading and watching versions of the Bounty story as books and as films. This course is taught by a faculty member in Literary Studies.

LNGC 1452 A - Pursuit of Storytelling: Tell me a Story CRN: 5768 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Rose Rejouis Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course focuses on the pursuit of storytelling in literary analysis and narratives. Students study a variety of narrators, looking closely at the way these detectives, ethnographers, lawyers, sailors, biographers, friends, and others come to be storytellers. Readings include Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and Patrick Chamoiseau. This course is taught by a faculty member in Literary Studies.

LNGC 1453 A - Literature of Social Movements: Civil Rights CRN: 5769 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Ferentz Lafargue Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines articulations of the spiritual strivings of the Civil Rights Movement. Authors and artists such as James Baldwin, Angela Davis, Emory Douglas, Bob Dylan, and Lorraine Hansberry serve as a guide to explore this epic period in the African American struggle for freedom. Secondary texts detailing the exploits of its seminal figures, incidents, and their standing in American history complement a rich array of primary texts such as autobiographies, letters, and memoirs, along with novels, plays, and other creative works. This course is taught by a faculty member in Literary Studies.

LNGC 1454 A - Goths! CRN: 5770 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Michael Pettinger Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines the history of a single word – "Goth" – and the way it has been used to describe things as varied as a 4th-century "barbarian" nation, a 12th-century architectural style, a 19th-century literary sensibility, a late 20th-century musical and cultural underground, and the city of New York itself. Students learn about the fifteen-hundred year history of the word using primary and secondary texts as well as various audio-visual media. In addition to a familiarity with the sweep of European/American cultural history, including figures as diverse as Theodoric the Great, Abbot Suger, Edgar Allan Poe, and the post-punk group Bauhaus, students also engage important critical questions on the nature of language, ethnicity, and cultural identity. This course is taught by a faculty member in Literary Studies.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 47 of 91 LNGC 1461 A - Arts of Sport CRN: 5771 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Mark Statman Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Sports have played a major role in United States culture since the United States has had a culture. The impact can be seen not only in the language we use but in the metaphors constructed, both for the heroic (the race-horse Seabiscuit, the Brooklyn Dodgers, with Jackie Robinson among them, as ‘boys of summer," the anti-war boxing champion, "the Greatest," Muhammed Ali) and the tragic (gambling and the 1919 Black Sox, the recent drug scandals of cycling, baseball, and track and field). This course examines the various ways sport has been presented (primarily through literature, journalism, music, and film) to consider the meaning of sport, particularly in connection with issues of race and gender, in 20th century and contemporary U.S. society. This course is taught by a faculty member in Literary Studies.

LNGC 1462 A - Madman and Trickster in World Arts: Fool's Gold CRN: 5772 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Robin Mookerjee Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description In this seminar, students explore one of the most durable and striking figures in cultures from around the world, the fool or jester. This is a comical, drunken, vagrant—but insightful—figure, sometimes a magical figure in traditional religion, sometimes a colorful but wise eccentric. He is the prankster in the Czech satire The Good Soldier Schweik, the most knowing character in King Lear, the would-be knight of Don Quixote, and the homeless sage of The Fisher King. The trickster is often excluded from society yet privy to humanity's most-treasured secrets. In this course, students find and decode occurrences of the jester from prehistory to modern times. The link between madness and vision, this class discovers, is the key to a perennial spiritual tradition. This course is taught by a faculty member in Literary Studies.

LNGC 1464 A - Nineteenth Century Paris, Contemporary NYC CRN: 6685 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Cathleen Eichhorn Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course explores the content and continuing challenge of The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin's encyclopedic project on Paris's 19th century commercial arcades. While The Arcades Project may appear to be simply a collection of textual fragments and commentaries on subjects as diverse as architecture and commerce, poetry, and fashion, many scholars consider Benjamin's study an exemplary philosophical and historical treatise on modernity and an exquisite experiment in writing. The Arcades Project serves as a springboard to investigate the art, transportation, political economy, and everyday practices of contemporary New York. Class discussions and assignments investigate Benjamin's ideas and writing style and provide an opportunity to explore some of the challenges faced in writing about a city's people, places, tensions, and histories.

LNGC 1471 A - Queer Culture CRN: 5834 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Ivan Raykoff Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course explores how alternative ("queer") sexual identities have opened new spaces for social organization through the arts as a form of activism. Case studies drawn from literature, music, the visual arts, film, and television are used to examine how queer identity, usually considered in opposition to established social structures, calls into question our assumptions about human relationships and offers productive alternatives in debates about marriage, citizenship, human rights, and other contemporary issues. This course is taught by a faculty member in the Arts.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 48 of 91 LNGC 1481 A - Plato's Republic CRN: 5835 Credits 4 Profesor(s): James Dodd Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description TThis course introduces students to philosophical questions, and questioning, through a close reading and discussion of Plato's Republic. A wide range of issues are on the table, such as the nature of knowledge and art, the relation between society and the person, the meaning and use of war; but everything turns on one basic question: "what is justice?" That the task of understanding justice is important is perhaps obvious to everybody, but just how embedded this question is in the fabric of our lives is perhaps not as clear. And it may be that the consequences of unraveling these diverse threads lead us to unexpected ideas about who we are and the nature of the world in which we live. This course is taught by a faculty member in Philosophy.

LNGC 1501 A - Drugs, Culture, Deviance CRN: 5837 Credits 4 Profesor(s): McWelling Todman Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course provides an overview of the history, roles, and function of chemical and behavioral addictions in the social construction of normative and deviant behavior. The concept of deviance is explored in terms of its segmentation into behavior that is deemed morally deviant (e.g., criminality), and behavior that may be indistinguishable in its consequences but is nonetheless perceived as morally neutral (i.e., psychopathology). This course is taught by a faculty member in Psychology.

LNGC 1511 A - Secularism at the Crossroads CRN: 5838 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Mark Larrimore Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description People used to believe that modernization would automatically bring the demise of religion. Secular institutions and values had a Manifest Destiny to take over all the parts of life traditionally occupied by religion. That prediction has proved false. Yet if a secular future is not inevitable, it may yet be worth striving for. This course examines competing understandings of secularism and secularity, and considers whether individuals and societies can be secular in some areas and religious in others. Against the background of recent best-selling books written by secularists, skeptics, and atheists shocked to find themselves again on the defensive, students read historical, anthropological, and philosophical studies of secularization processes and of secularism itself as an ideology, a culture - or even a religion. This course is taught by a faculty member in Religious Studies.

LNGC 1521 A - Psychoanalysis and Society CRN: 5839 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Orville Lee Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Since the early 20th-century, psychoanalysis has helped to define our understanding of experience. Psychoanalytic concepts like repression, neuroses, and the unconscious have become part of everyday language, and psychoanalytic practice has been popularized in films by Alfred Hitchcock and Woody Allen. In this course, students focus on the meaning and significance of the work of Sigmund Freud— the catalyst of the psychoanalytic movement—for understanding social life. They read his foundational writings on hysteria, dreams, and sexual development in women and men in order to trace the contours of psychoanalysis as a form of knowledge about the self; and they read Freud's meta-psychological writings on totemism, group psychology, memory, modern culture, war, and religion in order to link knowledge of the self with the social situation of individuals. This course is taught by a faculty member in Sociology.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 49 of 91 LNGC 1531 A - Math Cultures CRN: 5840 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Jennifer Wilson Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course introduces students to the new field of Ethnomathematics that bridges the gap between mathematics and anthropology. It explores the role of mathematics in diverse cultures, seeking to widen our view of what mathematics is, its history, and how it is practiced. In this class students compare differing concepts of time, space, and relationships, as well as examine traditions of religious practice, building, and design. Students also examine the role of Ethnomathematics in education and how its ideas can translate into classroom activities. This course is taught by a faculty member in Interdisciplinary Science.

LNGC 1532 A - Genes and Race CRN: 5841 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Alan McGowan Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course opens students to a body of scholarship that seeks to prove that race in human beings is a social construct, not a biological one. It further introduces the students to basic concepts in genetics, including the arguments over genetic determinism. Students then confront some of the controversies in the areas of race and intelligence and race and health. This course is taught by a faculty member in Interdisciplinary Science. This course counts is an integrative course for Race and Ethnicity.

LNGC 1541 A - How to Read a Play CRN: 5842 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Colette Brooks Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description In this course students read a number of different plays (primarily modern) and explore how a playwright creates an imaginative landscape on the page, moment to moment, that is vividly theatrical. Students investigate not just what a play says but how it works, and consider the different perspectives of writer, actor, and director, as well as critical and scholarly views. Throughout the course, they also explore the idea that simply reading a play can be rewarding. This course is taught by a faculty member in the Arts.

LNGC 2000 A - Lang College Singers CRN: 3289 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Deborah Gordillo Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description The Lang College Singers is Eugene Lang College's official vocal music ensemble. The chorus meets twice weekly, working to develop each singer's individual vocal technique, to introduce the fundamentals of music and four-part singing, and to rehearse the group in a concert program, usually performed at the term's end. The ensemble explores a broad range of musical styles, including gospel, jazz, rock-and-roll, folk, spirituals, madrigals, and classical. Members choose the appropriate music and then polish and refine the numbers, with a focus on improving musical skills and singing ability. Some singing ability is recommended, but it need not be in choral music. This course is repeatable.

LNGC 2910 A - I Have a Dream Seminar: American Comedy Classic CRN: 4615 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Cecilia Rubino Day(s) & Time(s): F: 10:00 am - 12:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course introduces students to the field of Theater in Education and Drama/Literacy through the lens of the genre of COMEDY. Through an indepth investigation of Classic of American Comedy from Abbott and Costello, to Keaton, the Marx Brothers and Calvin & Hobbes, students will explore comic structures, investigate clowning, prat falls, the phenomenon of the underdog and finally script comic material that could be used in an After School Theater program. This course counts toward requirements in Education Studies. Required for new IHAD Drama interns but open all Lang students.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 50 of 91 LNGC 2915 A - I Have a Dream Theater Practicum I CRN: 4098 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Cecilia Rubino Day(s) & Time(s): M: 3:15 pm - 5:45 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description At the Chelsea-Elliott I HAVE A DREAM program, Lang students help facilitate an after school theater program with (40) 4th graders. This semester the focus will be on Classic American Comedy from Abbott & Costello to Calvin & Hobbes. Lang students collaboratively script and direct a final performance with 4th grade students which will be shared with both the IHAD and New School communities and help tutor IHAD students in their academic subjects. (New Interns are also required to take the IHAD Theater in Education Seminar.) This course counts toward requirements in Education Studies and in Theater.

LNGC 2920 A - IHAD Dance Practicum CRN: 5843 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Rebecca Stenn Day(s) & Time(s): T: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description In this course, students gain the skills to teach dance to 2nd and 3rd Graders at The Chelsea Elliott School. The course examines pedagogical methods, connections between dance and the children's literacy and math syllabi, and focuses on teaching games and methods that are effective for the appropriate age group. Students first "practice teach" lessons and subsequently work with the children. Students are supervised by the professor while working with the children. They reconvene at Lang College throughout the semester to share their experiences and for feedback.

LNGC 3000 A - Teaching Learning Seminar I CRN: 1234 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Mark Larrimore Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course trains students to become Seminar Fellows to the First Year Program. The Seminar Fellows work with a faculty advisor to help their freshman advisees through the transition to college. They also teach and the First Year Workshop. Training includes developing good listening skills, facilitation of group discussions, and the presentation of factual information on a variety of topics, both academic and personal. Prerequisite: participation in this class is by permission only; students must have taken LNGC 3100 ("How People Learn"). Advising note: credits count as non-liberal arts credits. Students may apply up to 30 credits of non-liberal arts credits towards the 120 credits required for the bachelor's degree.

LNGC 3902 A - Intermediate Internship CRN: 3955 Credits 1 TO 8 Profesor(s): Jemima Gedeon Day(s) & Time(s): W: 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description The Intermediate Internship is challenging and rigorous: Interns attend 5 mandatory academic seminars centered around career education, conduct industry analysis or other research projects relevant for the organization of placement, and complete an Internship/Career Education Portfolio. The Intermediate Internship Seminar is designed to foster career clarification and development, professional growth and skill acquisition, with a more profound understanding of organizational culture and dynamics. This seminar picks up where the Introductory Internship ended; further acculturating students to the Lang Internship Program philosophy while providing guidance, structure, and support to students as they continue integrate textbook theory with real-life professional experience.This seminar requires the completion of the Introductory Internship Seminar, and permission of an internship advisor as prerequisites for enrollment.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 51 of 91 LNGC 3903 A - Internship Seminar: Advanced CRN: 1052 Credits 1 TO 12 Profesor(s): Jemima Gedeon Day(s) & Time(s): : - Prerequisite(s Course Description The Advanced Internship seminar is open to students who have successful completed the Intermediate Internship seminar and have at least a 2.5 GPA. The primary focus of this seminar is to provide students with additional career development resources and assist them with career placement. This option allows students to more thoroughly explore a career path, hone skills, and develop specific organizational opportunities. An Internship/Career Education Portfolio will be turned in at the end of the semester.There are no seminars, however, students are encouraged to meet with members of the Internship Program staff throughout the semester.

LNGC 3915 A - IHAD Theater Practicum 2 CRN: 4099 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Cecilia Rubino Day(s) & Time(s): F: 3:15 pm - 5:45 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description At the Chelsea-Elliott I HAVE A DREAM program, Lang students help facilitate an after school theater program with (35) 5th graders. This semester the focus will be on Classic American Comedy from Abbott & Costello to Calvin & Hobbes. Lang students will collaboratively script and direct a final performance with 5th grade students which will be shared with both the IHAD and New School communities and help tutor IHAD students in their academic subjects (New Interns are also required to take the IHAD Theater in Education Seminar.) This course counts toward requirements in Education Studies and in Theater.

LNGC 3940 A - Externship CRN: 4363 Credits 0 Profesor(s): Jemima Gedeon Day(s) & Time(s): : - Prerequisite(s Course Description

LNGC 3990 A - Berlin's Modernisms CRN: 6460 Credits 6 Profesor(s): Kimberly Foote Day(s) & Time(s): : - Prerequisite(s Course Description Berlin is perhaps the most modern of cities in its perpetual reinvention of itself. Berlin became the capital of the newly unified German Empire in 1871 and the political and cultural center of the Weimar Republic fifty years later. Between 1933 and 1945, the city was refashioned again as the seat of Hitler's Third Reich and swiftly became the epicenter of the Cold War following the Führer's defeat. In its most recent incarnation, Berlin regained its status as the capital of a reunified Germany in 1990, becoming an experimental theater of Eastern and Western European integration. Students explore the cultural history of the metropolis at four important moments of its reformulation: the Berlin of high modernism (1920s), the Berlin of the fascist 30s, the Berlin of the Cold War, and the Berlin of Eastern and Western reunification. Course material includes Walter Benjamin's "Berlin Chronicle," Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories, expressionist paintings, Leni Riefenstahl's Olympics films, Albert Speer's "The Thirteenth Hour" (architecture), W. G. Sebald's "Air War and Literature," H. M. Enzensbergers "Berlin Commonplaces," and excerpts of short stories and poetry from New Writing in Germany. Course readings are supplemented by fieldtrips to museums, architectural sites, and art galleries.

LNGC 4900 A - Ind Senior Project CRN: 1530 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Leah Weich Day(s) & Time(s): : - Prerequisite(s Course Description

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 52 of 91 LPHI 3115 A - Understanding Nietzsche CRN: 6461 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Katia Hay Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course familiarizes students with Nietzsche's philosophical thought through a close reading of portions of some of his major works: On truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense, The Birth of Tragedy, Genealogy of Morals, Beyond Good and Evil, Thus spoke Zarathustra. Students analyze central moments of Nietzsche's thought: will to power, the superman, art, genealogy and resentment in order to reflect upon philosophy itself: What is philosophy? How can philosophy be expressed? How Nietzschean are we? No previous knowledge of Nietzsche is requested.

LPHI 3118 A - Philosophy of Wittgenstein CRN: 5847 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Alice Crary Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is an introduction to the philosophy of Wittgenstein. The emphasis is on reading the Philosophical Investigations, but students also consider other writings of Wittgenstein's and delve into the work of some insightful commentators.

LPHI 2010 A - Philosophy 1: Ancient CRN: 2705 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Jared Russell Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This required course is an introduction to the major themes and important texts of ancient philosophy, covering such philosophers as Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plato, and Aristotle.

LPHI 2020 A - Philosophy 2: Modern CRN: 2706 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Markus Gabriel Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course explores various philosophical works of Descartes, Leibniz, Hume, and Kant in order to understand the nature, foundations, and limits of knowledge. Students explore various considerations of skepticism and their determinations of the subject.

LPHI 2124 A - Concepts of Human Nature CRN: 5845 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Zed Adams Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description The course aims to discuss human nature, without presuming the existence or knowability of a single, definitive concept of human nature and yet providing more than a detached, comparative overview. While the focus is on philosophical ways of conceiving human nature, the course also considers literary, religious, psychological, biological, and other perspectives. Students also reflect on our motivation to know our nature and what the limits of our knowledge, philosophical and otherwise, may be.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 53 of 91 LPHI 2761 A - Philosophers on Poetry CRN: 5846 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Paul Kottman Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description In this course, students examine the various ways in which poetic representation – from Homeric epic to tragedy – come under attack in Plato's writings, especially, Ion, Cratylus and Republic III and X. Then, they examine philosophical ‘defenses' of poetry, starting with Aristotle's response to Plato in his Poetics. In addition to reading a range of commentaries on Plato and Aristotle, they also look at foundational texts in modernity that have shaped subsequent theoretical debates on literature/poetry – for example works by Sidney, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Genette, and others. This is an integrative foundations course. This course satisfies some of the requirements in Literary Studies: Writing AND Literature concentration

LPHI 3108 A - Social and Political Philosophy CRN: 6462 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Zed Adams Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines the importance, origin, and influence of ideals such as freedom, equality, justice, and solidarity, all of which play an important role in the regulation and contestation of the social order. Topics include whether they reasonably be defended as representing the elements of a potentially universal culture, or whether their significance limited to particular historical formations; the forms of social organization and social relations, and conceptions of human subjectivity and community they imply; whether they are essential to an emancipatory politics or more expressive of an ideological hegemony veiling real social divisions. These issues lead to exploring the relationship between force and legitimacy, power and right, and theory and practice.

LPHI 3502 A - Temptations of Totalitarianism CRN: 5848 Credits 4 Profesor(s): James Dodd Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description One of the most striking features of 20th century intellectual history is a fascination with, and sometimes engagement in, the extremist politics of fascism and communism. This course focuses on four examples of intellectuals who took up what could be called the "totalitarian problem," from perspectives often more sympathetic than critical: Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidegger, Georg Lukacs, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Each of these thinkers has had an enormous influence in both political philosophy and the philosophy of history; thus the question here is not of a few marginal figures who spoke in defense of totalitarian politics in one way or another. Yet the purpose of this course is not to put these individuals on trial, but to attempt to understand how each understood the intellectual and political choices of their times.

LPHI 3508 A - Metaphysics and Tragedy: Rethinking the Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry CRN: 4630 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Simon Critchley Day(s) & Time(s): R: 2:00 pm - 5:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Since Plato, philosophy and poetry have been bitter rivals. Philosophy is concerned with truth and poetry is blatantly not true. In the Republic, Plato argued for the expulsion of poets. The poets he referred to were Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. In this course, students examine this quarrel by reading ancient Greek tragedies, followed by Plato's and Aristotle's responses to tragedy. Then, they examine how this quarrel is continued by modern philosophers, including Nietzsche, Hegel, Hölderlin, and Heidegger. Finally, they consider philosophy and tragedy in the contemporary theatrical and cinematic experience. This course satisfies some of the requirements in Literary Studies: Writing AND Literature concentration

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 54 of 91 LPHI 4504 A - On Nothing CRN: 6558 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Anthony Gottlieb Day(s) & Time(s): T: 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: juniors and seniors only. Course Description This course examines ideas of nothingness, vacuum and void, and their significance in Western thought. In philosophy, it starts with the paradoxical and intriguing pre-Socratic Parmenides, who argued that one cannot "think of what is not," and Plato's responses to him. It examines the role of nothingness in the systems of various modern philosophers, including Bergson, Heidegger, and Sartre, and at the debate among contemporary analytical philosophers on thequestion of whether a "null universe" even makes sense. It also considers Leibniz' question: why is there something rather than nothing? This question has engendered lively discussions, by philosophers such as including Robert Nozick and Derek Parfit. The course examines their treatments of it, and at theological and scientific answers to it. In the history of science, students examine medieval and early-modern debates about the possibility of a vacuum, and what today's cosmologists says about the concept of a vacuum in quantum mechanics. The course also includes existentialist angst about the void, starting with the oldest text there is --the Epic of Gilgamesh--and proceeding to Pascal, nihilism in 19th-century literature and 20th-century existentialism. This course is crosslisted with the New School for Social Research. Prerequisites: juniors and seniors only.

LPOL 2032 A - Power and the State CRN: 6602 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Mala Htun Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description Political action revolves around the state. The state is the locus of legitimate political authority. Resistance to the state, opposition to its policies, and attempts to influence its decisions and officials encompass much of what is meant by acting politically. What is the state, where did it come from, what does it do? This course studies these questions. It explores the origins of the modern state in Europe and its problematic evolution in Africa. It analyzes states and revolutions, states and democratization, and conflicts between the state and the market in economic development. Finally the course investigates how states shape social hierarchies of gender and race. It is designed as an introduction to comparative politics but is also appropriate for upper-level students.

LPOL 2023 A - Introduction to Political Theory CRN: 5874 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Andreas Kalyvas Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course focuses on the central themes that have defined the discipline and practice of Western political theory diachronically by examining the origins and development of Western political thought. It examines the invention of politics in ancient Greece, the normative foundations of political theory, the distinction among regime-types, the structure of social contract theories, the relationship between individual rights and popular sovereignty, and the emergence and consolidation of mass liberal democracy. Central topics include, the nature of political power, the ends of politics, the sources of sovereignty, the concept of political freedom, the quest of justice, law and property, the role of individuals in the political community, the various justifications of political obligation, and the logic of resistance and revolution.

LPOL 2001 A - Seminar Slam:The Debate Studio CRN: 6541 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Amber Kelsie Day(s) & Time(s): R: 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description students explore diverse styles and methods of argumentation and learn how to apply these methods in the seminar classroom as well as debate competition. Primarily a practice studio, the course helps students understand the strategies of cross-examination and other types of debate, the types and structure of formal debate, affirmative and negative strategies, and cross-examination techniques. Interested students will also have > the opportunity to travel to national tournaments and compete as a member of the New School Debate Team, and to participate in the Malcolm X debate series with high school students at Rikers prison. Most debate practice will center around the 2008-09 national cross examination debate topic. Past topics have included US-Russian politics, US policy on Indian Territory, the Middle East, Energy Policy, NATO, and Foreign Policy towards Africa. The course touches on political and philosophical arguments, as well as a range of articulation methods from formal and impromptu speech to poetry.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 55 of 91 LPOL 2054 A - Development and Democracy CRN: 6603 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Emily Wills Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description Societies seek two goods. They aim to provide for the basic welfare of their citizens and to respect and cultivate human freedom. Though these goals of development and democracy seem straightforward, achieving them is not. Throughout history, people have disagreed, often violently, about the causes and mechanisms of social and economic development and political democracy. This course examines the ways that social scientists and theorists have thought about development and democracy. In the first part of the course, we analyze major theories of development, defined as the process of producing wealth and improving living standards. Our objective is to understand the intellectual origins of economic liberalism, Marxism, and cultural approaches, and examine how these approaches interpreted major historical events. Next, we focus on the question of democracy. Our concern is how democracy has been understood, how societies arrive at democracy, and how democratic institutions vary. Finally, the course considers how democracy and development are related.

LPOL 2771 A - Race, Class, Ethnicity, Gender CRN: 5875 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Jacqueline Vimo Day(s) & Time(s): F: 12:00 pm - 3:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines both the causes and consequences of organizing politically on the basis of race, class, ethnicity, and gender. Given that none of these are automatic or natural forms of human association or political mobilization, students read texts that seek to explain why these markers are often politically relevant. They also explore what implications the mobilization of such identities has for democracy, for peaceful cohabitation, for development, and for social movements. The course explicitly examines the deployment of these four identities in different parts of the world. This is an integrative course for Social Inquiry departments, formerly known as ULEC 2211 Social Thought 1 .

LPOL 2801 A - American Law and Society CRN: 6734 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Greggory Spence Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is an introduction to the underlying principles adopted by American society on important political, social, and moral issues, as embodied in the Law. Students read and analyze historic judicial opinions, articles, accounts, and both historical and contemporary commentary, from the Declaration of Independence to the California State Supreme Court decision on gay marriage and the US Supreme Court opinion on the Second Amendment. Topics range from the purpose, structure, and limits of the federal government, economic regulation, public health and safety issues such as genetically engineered foods, animal cloning and commercialization of human organ transplants, selected constitutional rights, race and affirmative action, abortion, rights of homosexuals, gay marriage, transsexual issues to euthanasia.

LPOL 3049 A - Politics of Violence CRN: 5877 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Banu (Ayse Banu) Bargu Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course inquires into the relationship between politics and violence. It explores the centrality of violence to political power as articulated by early modern, modern, and contemporary political theorists. It investigates questions of individual and collective preservation, legality, legitimacy, and morality. It considers the implications of violent political action as a method of subjugation and resistance, as a logic of contestation, and as a form of self-expression by the dispossessed, drawing comparisons with non-violent resistance. It aims to distinguish between different forms of violence, including crime, warfare, terrorism, revolutionary struggle. The course focuses the theoretical discussion of violence on ongoing practices that are relevant to our political lives, ranging from capital punishment and torture to suicide attack and domestic abuse. Theorists include Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Marx, Bakunin, Arendt, Benjamin, Fanon, Gandhi, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 56 of 91 LPOL 3661 A - Slavery, Race, and Political Power In 19th Century America 18O0-1900 CRN: 5878 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Greggory Spence Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines the significant public debates, laws, judicial opinions, and political implications that slavery and race played in the national politics of 19th century America. Starting the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, it focuses on the political implications of the federal vote in National politics. It then follows the Northwest Ordinance, the Louisiana Purchase, the Haitian Revolution, the Missouri Compromise, and the historic Compromises of 1850, 1854. Topics include the political and social reactions to the Lincoln-Douglass debates, the Dred Scott decision, the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil War Amendments to the Constitution, the Reconstruction Period and the Civil Rights Cases of the 1870's, the Hayes-Tilden election and subsequent compromise removing the federal troops occupying the South, the rise of the Klux Klux Klan and the establishment of the Black Codes, Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery and W.E.B Dubois' Soul of Black Folk, the Plessy v. Ferguson decision and the Spanish American War.

LPOL 4411 A - 2008 Election in Comparative Perspective: McCain v. Obama CRN: 6463 Credits 3 Profesor(s): David Plotke Day(s) & Time(s): R: 4:00 pm - 5:50 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course analyzes the 2008 election in the United States. Beyond its immediate importance, this election also provides a window through which to view major elements of contemporary politics that extend beyond 2008. It focuses on the two main presidential campaigns in the United States-assessing them both as strategic efforts and as political and policy projects. Students consider how the shape of government institutions and electoral rules influences the electoral process. They examine parties and other modes of political mobilization and education, including the media. Topics include how voters make their decisions about whether and for whom to vote. Students also consider the dynamics and later the outcome of the campaign, and aim to understand how it resembles and differs from major elections in other countries today. This course does not presume a prior graduate course in American politics, but it does require a commitment to engaging the diverse primary materials that constitute a record of the campaign (speeches, media ads, public opinion polls, voting studies, interviews, and more). Bob Kerrey, President of the New School, will participate in several sessions of the class. This course satisfies requirements in History.

LPSY 4556 A - Language and Thought CRN: 3735 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Jennifer Pardo Day(s) & Time(s): M: 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: open to juniors and seniors only. Course Description This course surveys research on psycholinguistics, cognition, and the relation between language and thought. Crosslisted with New School for Social Research. This course satisfies some of the requirements in Literary Studies: both concentrations. Prerequisites: open to juniors and seniors only.

LPSY 4001 A - Research Practicum 2 CRN: 5853 Credits 1 TO 4 Profesor(s): McWelling Todman Day(s) & Time(s): : - Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is available only to students pursuing a BA in psychology, and only to students who have already taken the Practicum I course. Practicum II students can select a lab placement that is different from their previous placement only if they have not previously committed to a year-long placement.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 57 of 91 LPSY 4558 A - Psychopathology 2 CRN: 5856 Credits 3 Profesor(s): McWelling Todman Day(s) & Time(s): R: 4:00 pm - 5:50 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is an introductory survey of biological, cognitive, socio-cultural, and epidemiological aspects of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. Crosslisted with the New School for Social Research. This course satisfies some of the requirements in Literary Studies: both concentrations.

LPSY 2021 A - Human Memory CRN: 5849 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Alin Ioan Coman Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description The course addresses human memory from various perspectives. Students focus on the psychological mechanisms, but employ neuroscientific findings to validate these mechanisms. They explore research from a scientist's perspective (interested in how memory functions), but also from a practitioner's (interested in how the scientific findings can guide practitioners that rely on memory, such as therapists, lawyers and teachers). Topics such as current models of memory structures and processes, the intersection between emotion and memory, social influences on memory and the formation of collective memories receive extensive coverage. This course satisfies some of the requirements in Literary Studies: Writing AND Literature concentration

LPSY 2039 A - Fundamentals in Cognitive Neuroscience CRN: 4641 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Marcel Kinsbourne Day(s) & Time(s): T: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is an introduction to the basic structural and functional properties of the human nervous system and their relationship to various aspects of human cognition.

LPSY 2040 A - Fundamentals in Social Psychology (Disc. Sec Reqd) CRN: 4643 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Jeremy Ginges Day(s) & Time(s): T: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description The course provides a series of analytical tools to understand social phenomena, ranging from propaganda and persuasion to stereotyping and prejudice. It does so from a psychological perspective, that considers the individual as the unit of analysis and also recognizes that human beings are social animals whose identity is often at a par with their social groups and who are highly influenced by the social context in which they carry out their judgments and behavior. The course is comprised of lectures, discussions, and group activity. Assessment is done via take-home assignments, in-class exams, and participation. This course satisfies some of the requirements in Literary Studies: in both concentrations. This course satisfies some of the requirements in Literary Studies: Writing AND Literature concentration

LPSY 2772 A - Culture, Ethnicity, and Mental Health CRN: 5851 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Alexandra Berk Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is an introduction to the study of culture and human behavior in general, and culture and mental health in particular. Although primary attention is given to cross-national research and research on the major U.S. ethnic groups, issues of gender, social class, and other forms of diversity are also addressed. Multidisciplinary perspectives are examined, in particular that of medical anthropology. Familiarity with Abnormal Psychology is desirable, but not required. This is an Integrative Foundations course. This course satisfies some of the requirements in Literary Studies: in both concentrations.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 58 of 91 LPSY 3008 A - Abnormal Psych: Advanced Issues CRN: 6622 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Elizabeth Loran Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: Abnormal Psychology or its equivalent, or permission from the instructor. Course Description This course uses clinical case studies and current research findings as a medium for the exploration of different psychological disorders, including but not limited to bipolar disorder, sex addiction, serial killing, pathological gambling, shared psychotic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and dissociative identity disorder. This course examines classification boundaries and analyze alternative explanations for the development of pathological behaviors. Prerequisites: Abnormal Psychology or its equivalent, or permission from the instructor.

LPSY 3103 A - Dream Interpretation CRN: 1596 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Michael Adams Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course introduces students to the methods of dream interpretation that Freud, Jung, and others have proposed in the 20th century. In 1900, Freud published his book on dream interpretation, believing that he had discovered the "secret" of dream. The psychology community has now had a hundred years of psychoanalytic dream interpretation. In this course students learn to apply psychoanalytic techniques to interpret dreams in order to know the unconscious. Students explore psychoanalytic theory, dreams, the unconscious, and hermeneutics (the philosophy of the interpretation of texts). They also explore cultural aspects of interpretation through the example of African-American traditions about dreams in Anthony Shafton's Dream-Singers: The African American Way with Dreams. This course satisfies some of the requirements in Literary Studies: in both concentrations. This course satisfies some of the requirements in Literary Studies: Writing AND Literature concentration

LPSY 3122 A - Psychology of Prejudice CRN: 5852 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Patricia Slawuta Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course builds upon the foundational courses in cognitive, social, and developmental psychology to explore how cognition and various types of social context influence the formation and maintenance of stereotypes and prejudice. Case examples involving stereotype transmission through the use of mass communication (such as in Nazi Germany and Maoist China) and the mass media (such as in the case of the current and recent U.S. Presidential election campaigns) are introduced and critically examined. This course satisfies some of the requirements in Literary Studies: in both concentrations.

LPSY 3601 A - Methods of Inquiry CRN: 3734 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Shireen Rizvi Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description In this course, students learn to think critically about psychology research and the principles for conducting empirical research in psychology. Students learn about methodology for designing experiments and testing hypotheses. Over the course of the semester, students conduct their own psychological research study from start to finish, including generating hypotheses, determining the appropriate methodology, evaluating ethical considerations, collecting data, writing a research report, and presenting the findings in a scientific manner. Students review different methods of conducting research and critique examples of published empirical studies.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 59 of 91 LPSY 4000 A - Research Practicum 1 CRN: 3099 Credits 1 TO 4 Profesor(s): McWelling Todman Day(s) & Time(s): : - Prerequisite(s Course Description This is a hands-on course in which students are permitted to assume the role of a junior research assistants in one the Psychology Department's fourteen research labs. Students work under the guidance and supervision of a faculty member (the lab director) and senior graduate students. Because of the importance of laboratory skills and access in completing the Senior Work project, all psychology majors are strongly encouraged to enroll in a Research Practicum during the development and execution of the senior project. (Note: Starting in the Fall of 2008, this will become mandatory.) Admission is selective and requires the approval of the Research Practicum coordinator and the director of the lab in question. The minimum commitment for most labs is 4 hours/week, but some labs may require a greater time commitment. Additionally, some labs require that students commit to a year-long placement, meaning that the student is expected to register for Practicum 2 (LPSY 4001) in the following semester. Additional hours and credits can be arranged prior to registration.

LPSY 4002 A - IHAD Research Practicum CRN: 4653 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Howard Steele Day(s) & Time(s): : - Prerequisite(s Course Description This student-initiated research practicum gives students the opportunity to participate as a research assistants on a research project involving school children currently enrolled in a "I Have a Dream" (IHAD) program in Manhattan. Supervision is provided by the directors of the New School for Social Research attachment lab, Dr. Miriam Steel and Howard Steele, in conjunction with their advanced graduate students.

LPSY 4003 A - Research Prcticum 3 CRN: 5551 Credits 1 TO 4 Profesor(s): McWelling Todman Day(s) & Time(s): : - Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is available only to students pursuing a BA in psychology, and only to students who have already taken the Practicum 1 and 2 courses. Practicum 3 students can select a lab placement that is different from their previous placement only if they have not previously committed to a year-long placement.

LPSY 4503 A - Social Psychology CRN: 6735 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Emanuele Castano Day(s) & Time(s): T: 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: open to juniors and seniors only. Course Description This course provides an overview of social psychological research focusing on human beings as social animals engaged in a complicated network of social relations, both real and imagined. Constrained by our cognitive capacities and guided by motives and needs, humans attempt to make sense of our social world our relationship to it. The course examines how this influences perceptions of the self, perceptions of other individuals and groups, beliefs and attitudes, group processes, and intergroup relations. Readings emphasize how various theories of human behavior are translated into focused research questions and rigorously tested via laboratory experiments and field studies. This course is crosslisted with New School for Social Research. Prerequisites: open to juniors and seniors only.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 60 of 91 LPSY 4510 A - Psychopathology I CRN: 4656 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Xiaochun Jin Day(s) & Time(s): W: 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: open to juniors and seniors only. Course Description This course is the first of a sequence of three courses on adult psychopathology. This course focuses on some of the more fundamental diagnostic categories of the DSM IV-TR (e.g., the Personality Disorders) and explores relevant theoretical issues and clinical approaches to particular problems of treatment and assessment. This course is crosslisted with New School for Social Research. This course builds upon the foundational courses in cognitive, social, and developmental psychology to explore how cognition and various types of social context influence the formation and maintenance of stereotypes and prejudice. Case examples involving stereotype transmission through the use of mass communication (such as in Nazi Germany and Maoist China) and the mass media (such as in the case of the current and recent U.S. Presidential election campaigns) are introduced and critically examined. This course satisfies some of the requirements in Literary Studies: both concentrations. Prerequisites: open to juniors and seniors only.

LPSY 4521 A - Introduction to Cognitive Psychology CRN: 5854 Credits 3 Profesor(s): William Hirst Day(s) & Time(s): W: 8:00 pm - 9:50 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: open to juniors and seniors only. Course Description This course surveys the progress made in understanding the human mind from the perspective of cognitive science. The areas of memory, attention, and thinking are examined. Crosslisted with New School for Social Research. This course satisfies some of the requirements in Literary Studies: both concentrations. Prerequisites: open to juniors and seniors only.

LPSY 4524 A - Developmental Pyschopathology CRN: 4659 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Miriam Steele Day(s) & Time(s): R: 4:00 pm - 5:50 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: open to juniors and seniors only. Course Description This course reviews the emergence of the field of developmental psychopathology. Issues to be covered include the etiology of childhood disorders such as autism, conduct disorder, childhood depression, and attachment disorders. In each case, developmental outcome and programs of intervention are explored. Special emphasis is given to the developmental trajectories following from childhood maltreatment. This course is crosslisted with New School for Social Research. This course satisfies some of the requirements in Literary Studies: both concentrations. Prerequisites: open to juniors and seniors only.

LPSY 4564 A - Introduction to Substance Abuse Counseling CRN: 4385 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Karen DAvanzo Day(s) & Time(s): W: 4:00 pm - 5:50 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is an introduction to the counseling and intervention techniques commonly employed in substance abusing and dually-diagnosed populations. A variety of theoretical approaches are explored and their application demonstrated through the use of actual case material. This is a required course for those who wish to obtain an MA degree with a concentration in mental health and substance abuse counseling. This course provides 75 clock hours of NYSOASAS-approved CASAC training. This course is crosslisted with New School for Social Research. This course satisfies some of the requirements in Literary Studies: both concentrations.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 61 of 91 LREL 2022 A - Shaman and the Buddha CRN: 6613 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Antonio Terrone Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Among the most ancient systems of religious practice, classical Shamanism is believed to bridge the human and the divine in a dialogic attempt to solve issues of wellbeing, social conflict, and death. Although Shamanism does not entail a universal system of practices and values, there are many elements, aims, and features in its performance that are common to many cultures and societies. This course investigates some traditional elements that represent Shamanism and addresses practices, techniques, and aims in the pan-Asian continent including Tibet, Nepal, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, and Siberia.

LREL 3053 A - African American Religion CRN: 5863 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Paula Austin Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course explores the diversity of African American beliefs, experiences, and expressions from the colonial era through the Civil Rights Movement. Topics include the impact of Christian conversion of Africans and its part in maintaining the system of slavery in the U.S.; the important relationship between religious instruction and literacy in early America; the evolution of Christianity in the African American community and its significance in the Civil Rights Movement; and the role of experiences of women in African American religious traditions. Also examined are current African American Islamic traditions and their connection to African Muslim practice prior to the slave trade, and the development of African religions in "the new world" in the forms of Santeria, Candomble, and Vodun.

LREL 2055 A - Encountering Religious Pluralism CRN: 5857 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Katherine Kurs Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description From Rap churches to Sikh policemen, from Buddhist meditation in prisons to Latinos converting to Islam, this course explores contemporary religious pluralism in America, with particular attention to "lived religion" and the construction and expression of sacred meaning in our urban New York context. Topics include: an historical perspective of religious pluralism; post 9-11 challenges; atheists in America; religion on the internet; encounters with religious "difference"; inter/intra religious cooperation and confrontation; and tensions between religious and secular authority. Our modes of inquiring and learning will include fieldwork, written reflections, and a review of current news and scholarly literature, along with independent research and in-class presentations.

LREL 2070 A - Hebrew Bible in Context CRN: 5858 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Fran Snyder Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description Students examine the Hebrew Bible in the contexts that influence our reading of it – the Ancient Near East, in which it was formed, and contemporary America, from which we view the canonical text. Students read the Bible alongside of the literatures produced in neighboring cultures, including Mesopotamia and Egypt. Various genres – poetry, narrative, history, and law, are studied throughout, as are the biblical ideas of linear history, covenant and prophecy. As students' experience with the ancient literature increases, emphasis shifts to the Bible itself and its more complex narratives, including the Joseph 'novella.' Challenged to negotiate the tension between modernity and antiquity, students replace received notions of the Bible with fresh appraisals, and learn to read critically and with an eye for literary beauty, bringing this classic, foundational text into a modern context.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 62 of 91 LREL 2663 A - Introduction to Buddhism_Tibet CRN: 5859 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Christopher Kelley Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is an introduction to Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. It surveys major literary works and schools of thought starting from the time of the Buddha. Students consider all facets of Buddhist knowledge and history including art, literature, philosophy, politics, meditation, and yoga. The investigation also includes the more recent assimilation of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism in the "West" -- in particular its convergence with occidental science and philosophy.

LREL 2779 A - Science and Religion: Anomalies and Miracles CRN: 5860 Credits 4 Profesor(s): David Morgan Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines and compares religious and scientific approaches to unique and improbable occurrences. Based on readings in religious, scientific and philosophical texts, students explore the boundaries of scientific and religious approaches to knowledge and meaning. (This course will be team-taught by Religious Studies and Science faculty.) This is an integrative foundations course for Religious Studies and Interdisciplinary Science.

LREL 3004 A - Theorizing Religion CRN: 5861 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Mark Larrimore Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course seeks to answer the question "What is religion?" Reading classic and contemporary answers to this question, this class explores the ways in which this modern western concept illuminates but also distorts the largely non-modern and non-western traditions it purports to name. Students learn to see the category of religion as a mode of experience in historical and cross-cultural perspective, and to understand the study of religion in its historical and contemporary contexts. Making comparative, sociological, anthropological, psychological and philosophical approaches to "religion" their own, students learn that theorizing about religion is a powerful intervention in debates about culture and modernity (and postmodernity), politics and ethics, gender and society. This course is required for all Lang Religious Studies concentrators. Advising note: students who have taken Approaches to the Study of Religion are not permitted to take this course.

LREL 3007 A - Christians and the Word: Early Churches Read the Bible CRN: 5862 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Michael Pettinger Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines the many ways in which Christians of the first centuries of the Common Era conceived of, read, interpreted, argued about and otherwise used the canonical scriptures to understand and define their religious identity, their relationships to God and humans, their sexuality, and their hopes and fears surrounding death and resurrection. While focusing on a single biblical text – the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah described in Genesis 18 and 19 – students explore the huge diversity of early Christian writing: apologies, polemics, sermons, confessions, visions, prayers, hymns and even "magic" spells.

LREL 3057 A - Religion and the Environment CRN: 5864 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Sara Winter Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This seminar focuses on examples of environmental activism and its connection with underlying religious traditions. All religions have concepts of nature and of the place of human beings in nature. Beliefs and traditions shape worldwide responses to the environmental crisis in various ways. Environmental activists studied include Thai Buddhist monks (on tree ordinations), Wangari Maathai and the Greenbelt movement in Africa, and the Creation Care movement in the United States.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 63 of 91 LSOC 2068 A - Social Movements CRN: 6464 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Rachel Sherman Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course provides an introduction to sociological perspectives on social movements and collective action. It explores 20th century social movements in the U.S., looking in depth at labor, civil rights, and women's movements; it briefly covers other U.S. and international movements as well, and students write a research paper on a social movement of their choosing. The course focuses especially on gender and the role of women in social movements. These case studies also afford students the opportunity to develop proficiency in key theories of social movement emergence, growth, and decline, as well as organizational change and movement tactics.

LSOC 2001 A - Sociological Imagination CRN: 6508 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Tina Gentzkow Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description In this course, students begin to think about how society works. The course examines relationships among individual identity and experience, social groups and organizations, and social structures. They examine the economic, political, and cultural dimensions of social life and question social arrangements that seem natural or unchangeable. Topics covered include social inequality, politics and power, culture, race and ethnic relations, gender, interaction, and socialization. The course also introduces students to major sociological theorists and sociological research methods.

LSOC 2006 A - Investigations in Visual Sociology: Power and Fashion CRN: 6534 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Anna Akbari Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course takes a fresh look at fashion through a sociological lens. Focusing on the relationship between fashion, visual self-presentation, and power, the course investigates how power is visually negotiated in social life. Topics include the theatricality of everyday life, outfitting success, mediated fashion, erasure and emphasis in self- presentation, the commodification of the body, and embodied branding. Students conduct their own sociological field research (via interviews, participant observation, photo essays, video, etc.) on a topic that uses sociology through fashion to contribute to the emerging field of visual sociology.

LSOC 2015 A - Sociology of Education CRN: 6623 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Fanon Howell Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course introduces students to sociological theory and research on the topic of education in modern societies. Students examine the influence of education on politics, policy, inequality, economics and their influences on the field of education. The latter half of the course examines education reform in the United Sates with particular consideration for different techniques of accountability, parent empowerment, school governance, mayoral takeover, and education finance. Students gain practical experience by using the New York City Department of Education as a case study, comparing its reforms to other urban districts and delving into ongoing debates on national and international education reform. This course satisfies requirements in Education Studies.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 64 of 91 LSOC 3771 A - Contemporary Social Theory CRN: 5881 Credits 4 Profesor(s): George Steinmetz Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines some recent discussions in social theory. The course begins with an exploration of the theories and research by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and others in his tradition. It focuses particularly on Bourdieu's theories of culture and politics. The course then turns to some efforts to revise or criticize Bourdieu, including the work of Luc Boltanski, inventor of a new form of "pragmatic" sociology. Finally it examines French sociology's reception and use in the United States. This advanced course has two main objectives: to encourage critical thinking about areas of social life such as culture and science, to encourage critical, analytical thinking about the theories under consideration. This is an integrative foundations course. This course was formerly ULEC 2300 Social Thought 2.

LSTS 2860 A - Brain: Biology and Behavior CRN: 4742 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Steryl Jones Day(s) & Time(s): : - Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines what has been called the "three-pound universe," the human brain. Covered is the brain's basic biology—how neurons work together to produce the senses, our motor functions, our emotions, memories, and consciousness. Topics include the types of memory and memory formation, how the brain learns, the neural foundations of happiness, the male/female brain, the left/right brain, communication, autism, drugs, joy, the "gay" brain, the possibility of artificial intelligence, the presence of the soul, the sexual brain. The course features guided reading and online discussions.

LSTS 3004 A - Space, Time, and Einstein CRN: 4743 Credits 4 Profesor(s): David Morgan Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description Albert Einstein is perhaps the most recognizable figure in the history of science, and yet his Theory of Relativity remains a mystery to most people even today, more than 100 years after its publication. In this course students examine both the origin of Einstein's theory and its role in shaping the past century of modern physics. Topics include the universality of the speed of light, the mathematics of the Lorentz transformations, the curvature of space-time, the physics of black holes, and the possibility of time travel. The course also examines the life of Albert Einstein and his status as a cultural icon and the embodiment of our image of scientific "genius". This course also counts toward the requirements in Philosophy.

LSTS 3006 A - Math Tools for Social and Natural Sciences CRN: 5885 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Jennifer Wilson Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course provides the students with the basic tools to model dynamic situations in the social and physical sciences. The first part of the course discusses applications to derivatives and integrals, optimization in one and two variables and basic linear algebra. The second half examines systems of difference and differential equations. The focus throughout is be on how the mathematics is used to model the problem at hand.

LSTS 1850 A - Algebra CRN: 6505 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Robert Hiltonsmith Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course reviews the fundamentals of elementary and intermediate algebra. Topics include simplifying algebraic expressions, solving linear and quadratic equations, graphing, solving systems of equations, polynomial functions, factoring, rational expressions, exponents, and applications. The course prepares students for more advanced study in mathematics, i.e., pre-calculus and calculus, and courses involving broader mathematical principles, i.e., accounting and financial management.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 65 of 91 LSTS 1850 B - Algebra CRN: 6506 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Audrey Nasar Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course reviews the fundamentals of elementary and intermediate algebra. Topics include simplifying algebraic expressions, solving linear and quadratic equations, graphing, solving systems of equations, polynomial functions, factoring, rational expressions, exponents, and applications. The course prepares students for more advanced study in mathematics, i.e., pre-calculus and calculus, and courses involving broader mathematical principles, i.e., accounting and financial management.

LSTS 2006 A - Chemistry of Life CRN: 5882 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Bhawani Venkataraman Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course investigates basic chemical concepts in the context of topics relevant to chemical evolution and the chemistry that supports life today. Through an understanding of the chemistry and environmental conditions of early earth, the course considers ideas on how the environment supported the synthesis of molecular building blocks of life and how these building blocks become more complex molecules. Also covered is current research on how these complex molecules set the stage for "proto-life". The course incorporates computational molecular modeling and simulation software packages to investigate and visualize chemical concepts. This course is recommended for students who wish to take Chemistry of the Environment in the Spring.

LSTS 2040 A - Genes, Environment, and Behavior CRN: 3098 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Jaclyn Novatt Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course investigates the transactional relationship between our genetic make up and our environments. Course sessions retrace the experiments that led to the discovery of genes and their inheritance patterns, review molecular analyses to understand the functional products of genes, and reveal how the acquisition and accumulation of mutations leads to diverse human behaviors in changing social environments. Course readings include newspaper articles and secondary scientific literature; and videos and CDs clarify technical aspects of molecular DNA techniques. This course satisfies the prerequisite for The Science and Politics of Cancer, The Human Genome Project, and the Biodiversity Achieved lab course. This course also satisfies requirements for Psychology.

LSTS 2332 A - Cooper: Math 111 Calculus I CRN: 6627 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Jennifer Wilson Day(s) & Time(s): : - Prerequisite(s Course Description Students interested in taking this course should contact Jennifer Wilson [email protected].

LSTS 2525 A - Statistics with SPSS CRN: 4721 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Jennifer Wilson Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is an introduction to statistics using the software package SPSS. Emphasis is on understanding the concepts and their application to a wide range of situations. The course combines lecture, group discussion, and short collaborative assignments. Several times during the semester, students meet at a computer lab to learn specific software skills. Students are expected to go to the lab on a regular basis to complete self-guided tutorials and homework assignments.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 66 of 91 LSTS 2600 A - Foundations of Physics CRN: 3290 Credits 4 Profesor(s): David Morgan Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is an introduction to the basic concepts of physics—motion, forces, and energy. During the first half of the semester students study the birth of physics as a truly scientific endeavor, through the works of Galileo Galilee and Sir Isaac Newton. Then in the second half of the semester, they study heat, entropy, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics, one of the most far-reaching and profound yet puzzling laws in all of physics. The course combines a problem-solving approach to physics with a historical one, and texts include primary source works such as Galileo's "Dialogues", Newton's "Principia", and others. (This course is recommended for students who wish to take The Quantum Universe course in the Spring.)

LSTS 2661 A - Energy and Sustainability CRN: 5883 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Alan McGowan Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Starting from the premise that current energy sources and increasing energy consumption is primarily responsible for global warming, energy has become an important public issue. Newspaper editorials, for example, advocate that energy should be a central theme of elections and international politics. Debates about which alternate energy source are wise investments become politicized, as do decisions that must be made on how best to invest in scientific and technological advances for new, clean, efficient, sustainable energy sources for the future. Making informed decisions on these vital issues requires an understanding of the science and technology of energy, in addition to understanding the science of global warming. In this course, solutions to this problem are examined, including an examination of alternative sources of energy, redesign of houses and transportation systems. The science, economics, and politics of each of each of these issues are thoroughly explored.

LSTS 2779 A - Science and Religion: Anomalies and Miracles CRN: 5884 Credits 4 Profesor(s): David Morgan Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines and compares religious and scientific approaches to unique and improbable occurrences. Based on readings in religious, scientific and philosophical texts, students explore the boundaries of scientific and religious approaches to knowledge and meaning. (This course will be team-taught by Religious Studies and Science faculty.) This is an integrative foundations course for Religious Studies and Interdisciplinary Science.

LSTS 2811 A - Environment and Society CRN: 6465 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Paul McPhearson Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This survey course discusses central concepts and issues exploring the relationship between the environment and society. Topics discussed include concept of nature and the environment; environmental history, the rise of environmentalism, population and consumption, ecological footprint analysis, environmental justice, environmental politics, environmental movements, environmental values and the future of environmentalism.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 67 of 91 LSTS 2815 A - Introduction to Urban Ecology CRN: 6466 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Paul McPhearson Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description Ecology is the study of organisms and their surroundings. Through discussions on fundamental concepts in ecology, the course investigates the processes that influence the relationship between organisms and their natural habitats. People living in urban cities are often unaware of the connection between their livelihood and quality of life on the processes and cycles of the natural world. This course will discuss how these processes affect and are influenced by the communities humans inhabit.

LSTS 2825 A - Statistics CRN: 4723 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Audrey Nasar Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course covers techniques used to collect, organize, and present data graphically. Students learn how to calculate measures of center and dispersion, apply probability formulas, calculate confidence intervals, and test hypotheses. This course also provides an introduction to software used to analyze and present statistical information. This course is designed for students in marketing and does not use SPSS, which is commonly employed in psychological studies. Therefore, students who are studying Psychology and need to take a course in statistics should register for LSTS 2525. If you are a Lang student, please check with your department to see if SPSS is required for your area of study.

LSTS 2825 B - Statistics CRN: 4731 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Audrey Nasar Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course covers techniques used to collect, organize, and present data graphically. Students learn how to calculate measures of center and dispersion, apply probability formulas, calculate confidence intervals, and test hypotheses. This course also provides an introduction to software used to analyze and present statistical information. This course is designed for students in marketing and does not use SPSS, which is commonly employed in psychological studies. Therefore, students who are studying Psychology and need to take a course in statistics should register for LSTS 2525. If you are a Lang student, please check with your department to see if SPSS is required for your area of study.

LSTS 2825 C - Statistics CRN: 4732 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Marla Sole Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course covers techniques used to collect, organize, and present data graphically. Students learn how to calculate measures of center and dispersion, apply probability formulas, calculate confidence intervals, and test hypotheses. This course also provides an introduction to software used to analyze and present statistical information. This course is designed for students in marketing and does not use SPSS, which is commonly employed in psychological studies. Therefore, students who are studying Psychology and need to take a course in statistics should register for LSTS 2525. If you are a Lang student, please check with your department to see if SPSS is required for your area of study.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 68 of 91 LSTS 2825 D - Statistics CRN: 4733 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Marla Sole Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course covers techniques used to collect, organize, and present data graphically. Students learn how to calculate measures of center and dispersion, apply probability formulas, calculate confidence intervals, and test hypotheses. This course also provides an introduction to software used to analyze and present statistical information. This course is designed for students in marketing and does not use SPSS, which is commonly employed in psychological studies. Therefore, students who are studying Psychology and need to take a course in statistics should register for LSTS 2525. If you are a Lang student, please check with your department to see if SPSS is required for your area of study.

LSTS 2825 E - Statistics CRN: 4734 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Audrey Nasar Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course covers techniques used to collect, organize, and present data graphically. Students learn how to calculate measures of center and dispersion, apply probability formulas, calculate confidence intervals, and test hypotheses. This course also provides an introduction to software used to analyze and present statistical information. This course is designed for students in marketing and does not use SPSS, which is commonly employed in psychological studies. Therefore, students who are studying Psychology and need to take a course in statistics should register for LSTS 2525. If you are a Lang student, please check with your department to see if SPSS is required for your area of study.

LSTS 2825 F - Statistics CRN: 4735 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Ellen Halpern Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course covers techniques used to collect, organize, and present data graphically. Students learn how to calculate measures of center and dispersion, apply probability formulas, calculate confidence intervals, and test hypotheses. This course also provides an introduction to software used to analyze and present statistical information. This course is designed for students in marketing and does not use SPSS, which is commonly employed in psychological studies. Therefore, students who are studying Psychology and need to take a course in statistics should register for LSTS 2525. If you are a Lang student, please check with your department to see if SPSS is required for your area of study.

LSTS 2855 A - Pre-Calculus CRN: 4739 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Audrey Nasar Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description In this course, students review the basic mathematical functions used to model the natural world. Topics may include linear, polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic and trigonometric functions. Emphasis is on the algebraic, graphical, and analytic skills necessary to develop and interpret these models. Technology is also used to assist in visualizing the applications. This course assumes that students are familiar with the basic concepts of college algebra.

LSTS 2856 A - Calculus CRN: 4741 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Marla Sole Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is an introduction to the study of differential calculus. Topics include limits, continuity, derivatives of algebraic and exponential functions and applications of the derivative to maximization, and related rate problems. The principles of calculus are applied to business and economic problems. Prerequisite: Pre-Calculus or permission of the instructor.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 69 of 91 LTHR 2008 A - Fall Production Workshop CRN: 2885 Credits 1 TO 4 Profesor(s): Zisan Ugurlu Day(s) & Time(s): MTWFR: 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Students work on a play. Auditions TBA. Open to all.

LTHR 2012 A - Lang at LaMama: Scene Study CRN: 5649 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Zisan Ugurlu Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description In this course students go behind the scenes of a New York legendary theatrical institution. World famous, La MaMa, under the guidance of founder and artistic director Ellen Stewart, has for the past 45 years been the melting pot for the creative risk-taking, experimental explorations, and challenges to artistic boundaries. Lang students meet with La MaMa Theatre professional staff and guest artists who are involved in current season, also attend the season's performances and will have access to the theater's priceless 45 year old archive, from which they can access visual material to accompany the plays used during the course. This beginning acting course, includes exploration of the plays and the artistic processes through improvisations and scene study. Scenes are chosen from the writers who have become famous through the opportunities given to them by La MaMa.

LTHR 2015 A - Dramatic Masters: O'Neill, Williams, Albee CRN: 5650 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Colette Brooks Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course exaimines the work of three great playwrights of the 20th century, all of whom possessed a voice and viewpoint that was distinctly American in its time. Students explore several of the major plays of these writers but also examine the early work –such as O'Neill's Sea Plays, Williams' Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen, and Albee's Sandbox and Zoo Story – to see the early traces of a distinctive dramatic vision efore it was fully developed. Students also view great films made from some of the plays – such as A Streetcar Named Desire, Long Day's Journey into Night, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf – which preserve some of the finest work of great American actors and directors. (This course counts toward the dramatic literature requirement of the Theater track.) This course also satisfies some of the requirements in Literary Studies: Writing concentration.

LTHR 2020 A - Creating Solo Performance: Stories from the Lower East Side CRN: 5651 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Zisan Ugurlu Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: Acting 1 or the permission of the Instructor. Course Description This intermediate acting course introduces student to the research, writing, and performance techniques of solo performance. Students create their own solo performances based on research of sources such as diaries, letters, memoirs, and autobiographies that come out of the Lower East Side Eldridge St. Family histories. For over a century The Lover East Side was known as a home of immigrants and their children. Museum at Eldridge Street offer to students a wealth of material like transcripts of oral histories of elderly congregants. The students make four or five visits to Museum at Eldridge Street through the semester to do their research, tour the space, and gather materials and at the end of the semester they present their solo performances at beautifully restored synagogue. Prerequisites: Acting 1 or the permission of the Instructor.

LTHR 2050 A - Acting 1 CRN: 1529 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Cecilia Rubino Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is an introduction to basic acting techniques. It challenges student's creativity, stimulates the range of their imagination and sharpens their abilities to observe themselves and others. Through physical observations, improvs, monologues, and finally a rehearsed scene, students explore the fundamentals of acting.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 70 of 91 LTHR 2101 A - Theater History 1 CRN: 5225 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Victoria Abrash Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This survey course examines the history and aesthetics of theater, together with the concomitant development of staging, production, and acting methods and styles. Students read representative plays and essays about theater from the major periods of dramatic literature, with particular reference to historical context and dramatic convention. This semester covers the period of Ancient Greece through the 17th- century. This course counts toward the theater history requirement in the Theater Track.) This course also satisfies some of the requirements in Literary Studies: Writing concentration.

LTHR 2105 A - History of Dramatic Literature CRN: 5652 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Royd Climenhaga Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course provides a basis for understanding theater practice through the study of dramatic literature of the Western world from the Greeks to the present. Historical and theoretical concerns are addressed to place theater within a larger cultural context and to identify the need and purpose of theater in society. Plays are always considered as both literary texts and vehicles for performance.

LTHR 3211 A - Classics and Contemporary CRN: 5653 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Bonnie Marranca Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description The classics are rewritten and remade throughout the ages keeping them alive for each new generation. This seminar looks at such dramatic figures as Antigone, Medea, Oedipus, Lysistrata, Phaedra, Faust, Hamlet, Vanya, and Hedda Gabler through both the original texts and later versions in drama, opera, and film. A selection of texts by Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Ibsen and Chekhov join newer versions by Bertolt Brecht, Charles L. Mee, Sarah Kane, Jean-Paul Sartre, Heiner Muller, Maria Irene Fornes, and those of today's filmmakers to revel surprising new insights about history, politics and culture. This course satisfies some of the requirements in Literary Studies: Writing concentration.

LTHR 3303 A - Femme Fatale CRN: 4585 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Colette Brooks Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines the iconic femme fatale figure as she appears in dramatic literature and pop culture from the Greeks to the present day. Students explore the question of why this alluring but treacherous siren has persisted, with scant alteration, over centuries. What is threatening about her, and to whom? How does this archetype stand in relation to the lives women typically lead? Virginia Woolf once observed that women were accorded a power in literature that they were never allowed in life. Why? Students read plays, see Hollywood movies, and look at related literature in such fields as psychology and cultural studies. This course counts toward the dramatic literature requirement in the Theater track.

LTHR 3990 A - Edinburgh Theater Festival CRN: 5160 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Cecilia Rubino Day(s) & Time(s): : - Prerequisite(s Course Description This program was designed as an introductory theater course, and requires no previous acting experience. The course explores the history of avant-garde theater in Europe and the United States through readings and seminar discussions. In addition, students participate in monologue workshops and enjoy admission to select performances at the international Edinburgh Fringe Festival. All students are housed at Napier University. The program is conducted during the summer, and requirements include a 2.5 minimum GPA. Applications are available from the Study Abroad Coordinator.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 71 of 91 LURB 3810 A - Planning the Sustainable City CRN: 4740 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Nevin Cohen Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course explores how the urban planning process affects the sustainability of cities, for better or worse. Students study land-use practices that have, over the decades, led to traffic congestion, air pollution, inefficient energy consumption, loss of open space, inequitable resource distribution, and the loss of community. They explore and evaluate planning principles and tools that are designed to halt, reduce, or reverse the negative effects of poor planning on the urban environment. Presentations include community activists, government planners, and private developers who work in the New York metropolitan region to advance sustainable land use planning. Formerly, this course was designated under the UE track. This is a ULS course, taught through Lang College. It is open to students across the University.

LURB 2026 A - Transforming New York CRN: 5888 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Howard Harrington Day(s) & Time(s): F: 12:00 pm - 3:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description In this course students explore some of the most controversial planning issues and debates associated with the contemporary remaking of New York City, including those surrounding the World Trade Center, the Atlantic Yards, gentrification of the Bronx, the High Line, and waterfront redevelopment in Brooklyn. Students have the opportunity to meet key players in the redevelopment process, to make site visits to the projects and affected neighborhoods, and to conduct their own independent research culminating in presentations of their analysis and recommendations.

LURB 2661 A - Metropolitan Environments CRN: 6129 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Nevin Cohen Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course explores the process of urbanization and the consequences of an increasingly urban world on humans and the environment. As an introduction to the fields of urban and environmental studies, students examine metropolitan environments from a variety of disciplines, including economics, politics, planning, ecology, sociology, and design. Through readings, case studies, and field trips, students learn why cities have come to look and function the way they do, the relationships between metropolitan areas and the natural and human systems they affect, and on which they depend, and diverse approaches to making cities environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable. This is a core course for both Urban Studies and environmental Studies majors.

LURB 2667 A - Urban Sociology CRN: 6167 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Virag Molnar Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description The course offers a survey of the central themes of urban sociology. It draws attention to the spatial dimension of social processes, highlighting the impact of space and the built environment on social life. It emphasizes the significance of the city as a strategic research site for sociology, showing how the study of the modern city offers a lens into key social processes such as social inequality, immigration, and social conflict. The course examines the distinctiveness of the city as a form of social organization. It covers a broad range of topics including street life, crime and the informal economy, the relationship between spatial and social segregation, urban riots and mass protests, the impact of shopping malls and suburbanization, the importance of public space, changes brought about by globalization, and challenges facing cities in the wake of terrorism. This course also counts toward requirements in Sociology.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 72 of 91 LURB 3007 A - Urban Economies: Money, Power, and People CRN: 3102 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Joseph Heathcott Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description In recent decades urban economies have been profoundly and irreversibly transformed. Existing political and economic arrangements have been superseded by new institutional configurations, political-economic organization, and centers of growth. As cities and the mechanisms of urban governance adjust to these new realities, the focus of urban planners and policy-makers has moved from traditional functions of resource allocation and management towards aggressive place-making and promotion initiatives and increasingly "entrepreneurial" economic development strategies. This course examines these challenges and controversies, allowing students to critically evaluate the role of urban planning and policy in shaping the development of urban economies.

LURB 3027 A - Mapping the City CRN: 6472 Credits 4 Profesor(s): James Connolly Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This class offers a critical introduction to the graphic representation of urban space. We survey the growing use of mapping technology in the practice of urban planning and spatial research within a contemporary and historical context. Students learn a number of spatial analysis techniques with a focus on the role of spatial mapping and representation as a support tool for various agendas of urban development. Techniques covered include Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Google Earth, and assorted visualization software as well as non-computer based methods. Students also examine practices of spatial representation with a specifically insurgent or counter-institutional agenda. Ultimately, the course engages with available technologies for spatial representation and analysis, but does so with a strong sense of the history of urban cartography and with a careful eye toward the inherently political aspect of maps.

LURB 3031 A - City Studio: Small Urban Place CRN: 6471 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Through intensive fieldwork, this course explores a small urban place or community in New York. Students learn multiple strategies for examining urban spaces such as basketball courts, playground, parks, streets, and neighborhoods. To identify and study the layers of complexity at work in any small urban place, students apply ethnographic, visual, historical, and participatory methods. They consider how these methods can help illuminate issues defined to be important by residents. The course culminates with a student-produced exhibition that will represent our exploration and analyses to a broader public.

LURB 3038 A - Understanding Inequality CRN: 5891 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Orville Lee Day(s) & Time(s): F: 2:00 pm - 5:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course centers on the definition of inequality and the politics of social policy in the United States, with a particular emphasis on the urban context. Readings and discussions explore the following topics: the semantic and institutional origins of the welfare state; the relationship between inequality, race, and urban life; the impact of political activism and community organizing on social policy and inequality; gender and economic inequality; and debates over the effectiveness of social policies intended to alleviate economic inequality. This course satisfies some of the requirements in Literary Studies: Writing concentration.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 73 of 91 LURB 3106 A - Comparing Cities: London, Berlin, Toronto, New York CRN: 6467 Credits 4 Profesor(s): Christopher Klemek Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description Comparative frameworks are essential for the study of cities across time and space. This course examines four cities in four countries-London, Berlin, New York, and Toronto-comparing their evolution over the last hundred years. The three major periods covered correspond, roughly, to the beginning, middle, and final thirds of the 20th century. Themes include the challenges of the late industrial metropolis, metropolitan growth and expansion, urban renewal, suburbanization, and historic preservation. Students also examine the history of architectural and urban criticism that has accompanied these distinct cities in their various phases. This course satisfies requirements in History.

LURB 3955 A - IS: Environmental Scholars CRN: 3758 Credits 1 TO 6 Profesor(s): Nevin Cohen Day(s) & Time(s): : - Prerequisite(s Course Description The independent study enhances the internship experience of students who have been accepted into the Tishman Environmental Merit Scholars program. See Internships, in this catalog for more information. Formerly, this course was designated under the UE track.

LURB 4529 A - Community Development CRN: 3395 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Robert Zdenek Day(s) & Time(s): R: 8:00 pm - 9:50 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description As a discipline, community development focuses on the identification, allocation, and effective use of human, physical, financial, or social resources in neighborhoods or multi-neighborhoods areas. It encompasses the understanding and development of the social organizations and institutions, such as community development corporations and community based organizations, which facilitate the association and interaction of neighborhood residents in activities of common interest. It is an important approach for revitalizing poor neighborhoods, often including organizing residents in a targeted area, local planning, advocacy, and political mobilization, institution building, and economic development. This course focuses on the major theories, policies, and conceptual approaches of community development. It then reviews the major strategies and approaches used to revitalize poor urban communities. Finally, it covers re-current topics in the field, such as leadership succession and capacity building, regional versus neighborhood development, the impact of immigration on our conceptualization of the field, and the roles of race and gender. This course is crosslisted with Milano. Formerly, this course was designated under the UD track.

LURB 4543 A - Newark: Issues in Redevelopment CRN: 6475 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Peter Eisinger Day(s) & Time(s): R: 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: only to juniors and seniors only Course Description This is a research course on economic and community development issues in the city of Newark. The class will meet for several weeks to discuss Newark as a prototypical industrial city long since left behind in the new economy but struggling to encourage some economic activity to replace its lost tax and employment base. Then students conduct assigned group research projects that to assess current development initiatives and recommend future courses of action. Topic areas include "eds and meds" initiatives, housing and the foreclosure crisis, and arts and entertainment as development strategies, among others. This course is crosslisted with Milano. Prerequisites: only to juniors and seniors only

LURB 4578 A - Urban Poverty Theory and Policy CRN: 6474 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Laura Pangallozzi Day(s) & Time(s): T: 4:00 pm - 5:50 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 74 of 91 LWEL 2205 A - Lang Urban Park Rangers CRN: 4624 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Vincent Piccolo Day(s) & Time(s): F: 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description In collaboration with New York City Park Rangers, students explore various parks in New York City learning about horticulture, wildlife, and park preservation and management. This course may lead to a paid summer fellowship as a NYC Urban Park Ranger. Urban Park Rangers teach natural and cultural history to children, lead guided nature walks, canoe, explore waterways, and bird watches. The Rangers offer opportunities for New Yorkers to get outside, care, and protect the environment and discover nature in the urban landscape.

LWEL 2001 A - Lang Cycling Team CRN: 4617 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Christopher Brunson Day(s) & Time(s): F: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description As New York City plans for a greener future, sustainable forms of transportation--especially biking--seem likely to take an ever-larger role. In this course, offered in conjunction with Recycle-a-Bicycle, students develop the knowledge and skills to be safe, informed, and proactive urban cyclists. They learn the basics of bicycle maintenance and repair, take a close look at bicycle politics and policy, and undertake regular group bike rides all over the five boroughs.

LWEL 2003 A - Lang on the Hudson CRN: 4618 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Robert Buchanan Day(s) & Time(s): F: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description In the early fall, and again in late spring, students learn the basics of fixed-seat rowing and small-boat seamanship at the the Village Community Boathouse on Pier 40. In the late fall, and early spring, working on campus, students complete the construction of a 26-foot Whitehall gig, a traditional four-oared rowing vessel specifically designed for the waters of New York Harbor. Via a series of lunchtime guest lecturers, the course also offers an introduction to harbor geography, estuary ecology, and the political processes that are shaping the contemporary urban waterfront.

LWEL 2003 B - Lang on the Hudson CRN: 4620 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Robert Buchanan Day(s) & Time(s): F: 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description In the early fall, and again in late spring, students learn the basics of fixed-seat rowing and small-boat seamanship at the the Village Community Boathouse on Pier 40. In the late fall, and early spring, working on campus, students complete the construction of a 26-foot Whitehall gig, a traditional four-oared rowing vessel specifically designed for the waters of New York Harbor. Via a series of lunchtime guest lecturers, the course also offers an introduction to harbor geography, estuary ecology, and the political processes that are shaping the contemporary urban waterfront.

LWEL 2004 A - Lang Marathon Team CRN: 4621 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Rory Stuart Day(s) & Time(s): F: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Students interested in training to run or walk 26.2 miles may join the marathon team at Lang College. Marathoners attend weekly one-hour meetings and participate in weekly group runs/walks. While training for a marathon, members learn about training and exercise techniques, neighborhoods of New York City, and marathon history. Students may apply to run the NYC Marathon in November, although runners are chosen by lottery. Other marathons are also options.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 75 of 91 LWEL 2115 A - Pilates CRN: 5163 Credits 1 Profesor(s): Sean Gallagher Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description The course examines the basics of authentic Pilates mat as taught by Joseph H. Pilates, a pioneer in the effective and efficient use of the body for health and well being. Students learn a series of basic through advanced exercises using proper controlled movements and form that help improve the physique in one semester. The Pilates method increases flexibility, improves balance and coordination, aligns, strengthens, elongates, and develops the body. This course is open to both dancers and non-dancers.

LWEL 2125 A - Yoga: Philosophy and Practice CRN: 4623 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Hatice Sarman-Paoli Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 8:00 am - 9:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course examines the origins, history, and philosophy of yoga. Students learn the fundamentals of yoga practice: the physical poses or asanas, and the breathing and meditation practices. Students experience how philosophy and practice are deeply intertwined and how the knowledge of the former enriches the latter. Open to all students. NOTE: Students must bring a yoga mat, block, and strap.

LWEL 2209 A - Oyster Gardens of NYC CRN: 6535 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Mara Haseltine Day(s) & Time(s): F: 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description In this hands-on environmental design course taught by a noted environmental sculptor, Mara G. Haseltine, students will learn about innovative design and biology behind building of urban oyster floating gardens, thereby helping to restore a vital element of biodiversity that has been virtually absent from the waters of New York Harbor since the Industrial Revolution. The restoration of 100 square miles of reef would filter twenty seven billion tons of wastewater that flows into New York's Waterways annually. In the Fall semester, students will learn about the biology of oysters and the history and methods of oyster cultivation, and undertake the construction of their own floating modular oyster gardens. In the Spring, they will seed their oyster gardens, deploy them in the harbors and estuaries, and collect scientific data. Both classes will feature guest speakers from the local oyster community, including environmentalists and marine biologists working in New York Harbor. Fall students are encouraged, but not required, to register for the Spring.

LWEL 2301 A - Lang Mural Project CRN: 6476 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Martin McGrady Day(s) & Time(s): F: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Students work with Groundswell Community Mural Project, and a professional muralist to learn about the history of murals and explore murals within the five boroughs. Students meet with community organizations to learn about the mural making process and discuss issues such as politics, funding, youth involvement, group dynamics, social change, and aesthetics. They keep a visual diary, documenting their out of class experiences. They also are involved in mural production that may lead to an internship helping to create a large-scale mural during the summer.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 76 of 91 MHTC 5008 A - Dynamics of US Health Care System CRN: 1026 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Anthony DiMarco Day(s) & Time(s): T: 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: open to juniors and seniors only. Course Description This course is an introduction to the institutional, social, and political forces in health care. After setting the context for historical and political economy, the course explores the dynamics of health care institutions and the health sector labor force. Trends in health care financing, management, and delivery are analyzed, with a focus on reform processes and comparisons with other industrialized countries. Students assess biological and cultural understandings of race and to consider the interaction of race, class, and social power to explain racial inequities in health. They focus on transition from fee-for-service delivery to managed care in the private sector and to the past and future of Medicare and Medicaid. They consider several contemporary health policy topics, including ethics, equity, access to health care, and quality of care. This course is crosslisted with Milano. Prerequisites: open to juniors and seniors only.

MPLC 5040 A - Policy Analysis CRN: 1032 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Jeannette Rausch Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:50 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisites: open to juniors and seniors only. Course Description This core course develops the policy analytic framework for decision-making, including cost-benefit analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and financial analysis. It is part of a two-semester sequence that includes a lab. This course is crosslisted with Milano. Prerequisites: open to juniors and seniors only.

NARB 1101 A - Arabic Introduction 1 CRN: 4918 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Nargis Virani Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is an introduction to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) intended for students with no prior knowledge of Arabic. It aims at laying the foundation for the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. The students will spend the semester recognizing and producing Arabic language sounds accurately, talk about simple daily life situations, read and understand words, phrases, and sentences, and write various forms of the Arabic alphabet, graduating on to basic sentences, short notes and memos. This course is based on the communicative approach in language teaching and learning. It focuses on the functional usage of the language and on communication in context.

NARB 1103 A - Arabic Introduction 3 CRN: 4922 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Nargis Virani Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is a continuing introduction to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). It aims to further develop and advance the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. The students will spend the semester comprehending audio and video materials accompanying the textbook, which includes conversations by native speakers discussing aspects of Arabic culture. They will be able to discuss these materials in Arabic as well as read and write grammatically correct short paragraphs on a variety of topics with the help of an Arabic dictionary. This course is based on the communicative approach in language teaching and learning. It focuses on the functional usage of the language and on communication in context. Prerequisite: Arabic Intro 1 or permission of the instructor.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 77 of 91 NFLM 3500 A - Developing Ideas for Film* CRN: 1960 Credits 0 OR 3 Profesor(s): John Freitas Day(s) & Time(s): W: 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm Prerequisite(s *This is a practiced-based course. Course Description This course explores how to develop the concept, structure, and procedure to produce a short film (to be produced in the 16mm Film Production course). It covers pre-production details: initial concept, synopsis, treatment, script, storyboards, shot list, scheduling, location scouting, and cost. Using screenings and analysis of classic scenes, the cinematic choices available to a filmmaker are discussed with focus on subsequent application. Topics include making choices about character and story development, narration and dialogue, visual composition and camera placement, jumpcuts, continuity, montage, camera movement, and lighting. Recommended for students planning to take 16mm Film Production. This course satisfies some requirements in Culture and Media. *This is a practiced-based course.

NFLM 3610 A - 16mm Film Editing* CRN: 3981 Credits 0 OR 3 Profesor(s): Branislav Bala Day(s) & Time(s): T: 6:00 pm - 8:40 pm Prerequisite(s Prerequisite: 16mm Film Production or permission of the Film Program Advisor. *This is a practiced-based course. Course Description This course guides filmmakers through editing design and theory and all phases of postproduction from assembly to fine cut of the five-minute non-sync project. Activities include editing (assembly, rough cut, fine cut), soundtracks (recording wild sounds, sound transfers, using a sound effects library), making and shooting titles, preparing the film for the lab (original cutting, hot splicing, A&B rolling or single-strand originals, answer prints with optical sound), and obtaining a release print. Area postproduction facilities open to independent filmmakers are identified, including film labs, sound mixing studios, optical houses, and stock footage and sound houses. This course satisfies some requirements in Culture and Media. Prerequisite: 16mm Film Production or permission of the Film Program Advisor. *This is a practiced-based course.

NFRN 2101 A - French Intermediate 1 CRN: 4979 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Sabine Landreau-Farber Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Beginning with a review of basic French grammatical structures, this course moves to cover more complex forms such as the conditional and the subjunctive. Special attention is paid to increasing students' ability to understand spoken French and to converse on a number of topics pertaining to different times and places, particularly French-speaking countries. Students also begin to write short compositions on chosen topics and make oral presentations to the class. Prerequisite: French Intro 2 or permission of the instructor.

NFRN 1101 A - French Introduction 1 CRN: 4975 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Christine Luneau-Lipton Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This first course is designed for students with no previous knowledge of French or students with one or two years of high school French taken five or more years ago. Students build a solid basis in oral and written skills upon which to develop and expand their knowledge of the French language and culture. In-class time includes a wide range of activities, including listening, role-playing, writing, etc. Grammar covers the present of regular and most common irregular verbs, the near future and basic French idioms. Basic everyday vocabulary is emphasized.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 78 of 91 NFRN 1101 B - French Intro 1 CRN: 4976 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Christine Luneau-Lipton Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 8:00 am - 9:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This first course is designed for students with no previous knowledge of French or students with one or two years of high school French taken five or more years ago. Students build a solid basis in oral and written skills upon which to develop and expand their knowledge of the French language and culture. In-class time includes a wide range of activities, including listening, role-playing, writing, etc. Grammar covers the present of regular and most common irregular verbs, the near future and basic French idioms. Basic everyday vocabulary is emphasized.

NFRN 1101 C - French Intro 1 CRN: 6010 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Alfredo Marques Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This first course is designed for students with no previous knowledge of French or students with one or two years of high school French taken five or more years ago. Students build a solid basis in oral and written skills upon which to develop and expand their knowledge of the French language and culture. In-class time includes a wide range of activities, including listening, role-playing, writing, etc. Grammar covers the present of regular and most common irregular verbs, the near future and basic French idioms. Basic everyday vocabulary is emphasized.

NFRN 1102 A - French Intro 2 CRN: 6011 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Christine Luneau-Lipton Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description After a brief review of material covered in Intro 1, more complex grammatical and syntactical elements are introduced (pronominal verbs, passé composé, imparfait, multiple pronouns etc...). Through in-class interactive exercises, students expand their vocabulary and knowledge of French culture and learn to write short descriptive and narrative texts. Prerequisite: French Intro 1 or permission of the instructor.

NFRN 1102 B - French Intro 2 CRN: 4977 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Christina Rufin Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 8:00 am - 9:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description After a brief review of material covered in Intro 1, more complex grammatical and syntactical elements are introduced (pronominal verbs, passé composé, imparfait, multiple pronouns etc...). Through in-class interactive exercises, students expand their vocabulary and knowledge of French culture and learn to write short descriptive and narrative texts. Prerequisite: French Intro 1 or permission of the instructor.

NFRN 2102 A - French Intermediate 2 CRN: 4980 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Stephane Zaborowski Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 4:00 pm - 5:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This is an advanced intermediate course in which students apply and polish their French skills by reading and discussing short literary texts. Further knowledge of the history and culture of French-speaking countries is introduced through films and magazines and subject to individual class presentations. Different grammar topics are studied in depth and organization of written compositions is emphasized. Prerequisite: French Intermediate 1 or permission of the instructor.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 79 of 91 NFRN 3101 A - French Advance 1 CRN: 6014 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Florence Leclerc-Dickler Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 4:00 pm - 5:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is intended to develop students' oral and writing skills in French. Students study literary texts, view some classical films, and discuss current events in the French-speaking world. Specific topics reflecting the students' general interests might be chosen as a field of study by the instructor. Nuances of grammatical structures are examined and applied. Prerequisite: French Intermediate 2 or permission of the instructor.

NHIS 3361 A - Getting and Spending: A Century of Mass Consumption in the US and Europe, 1900-present CRN: 4887 Credits 0 OR 3 Profesor(s): Ann-Louise Shapiro Day(s) & Time(s): T: 4:00 pm - 5:50 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description From the emergence of the department store in the late nineteenth century to the present, the development of modern consumer society has been a central feature of the history of the west. This course examines mass consumption as a prism through which to explore some of the most significant changes in twentieth-century society, economics, and culture, paying attention to: changing ideas about necessity, austerity, luxury and excess; the relationship of men and women to commodities; the transformation of retailing, marketing, advertising, and credit; the notion of the citizen-consumer and differences of class, gender, and race; and contemporary ethical and environmental critiques. It draws on sources in history, anthropology, and political economy in an effort to tease apart – and gain a critical perspective on – issues that are tightly woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. This course satisfies requirements in History.

NHIS 3362 A - Gender, Sexuality, and the State in Modern Europe CRN: 6154 Credits 0 OR 3 Profesor(s): Ann-Louise Shapiro Day(s) & Time(s): W: 4:00 pm - 5:50 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course takes a century-long look at how the most personal identities and practices of private life have been shaped, organized, and managed through public policy. At the same time, it explores the ways that individuals and groups live both within and beyond the categories defined by the public sphere. We examine definitions of citizenship as they evolved along gendered lines, looking at political rights, the emergence of the welfare state, and the family policies that determined the rights of immigrants. We investigate the state's involvement in policing homosexuality, birth control, prostitution, and abortion. We look at the ways that governments promoted births in a Europe devastated by wars, and at how these wars both confirmed traditional understandings of gender and sexuality and forced open new possibilities. Finally, we examine the challenges to Europeans' ideas about citizenship, gender and sexuality presented by the influx of new racial and ethnic minorities. This course satisfies requirements in History.

NHIS 4100 A - Transnational America CRN: 6155 Credits 0 OR 3 Profesor(s): Julia Foulkes Day(s) & Time(s): W: 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description What if we view the United States as not having any borders? What happens if we put the flow of people, goods, and ideas at the center of our study of the U.S.? This course examines the emergence of transnationalism as a way in which to think about the state of a place that exists beyond geographical dimensions. This perspective includes looking at how others view the U.S., the effects of migration and immigration on the idea of nationhood, the impact of capitalism in setting up a global web of labor and goods, and the implications of all this in both researching and understanding "America." Readings include both classic texts, such as those by de Tocqueville and Du Bois, as well as recent work on disaporas, the Black Atlantic, Pacific Rim, and globalization. This course also counts toward History requirements.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 80 of 91 NINT 5284 A - City and Environment CRN: 5917 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Adriana Abdenur Day(s) & Time(s): T: 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description What are the sources and consequences of urban environmental degradation? What is the role of cities in broader patterns of environmental degradation? How do different social groups interpret this process and tackle (or ignore) its challenges? This course takes a political economy approach to environmental dynamics as they relate to the city, paying special attention to the role of globalization. Topics include the culture of consumption, movements for environmental justice, and the growing role of cities as political actors within transnational environmental politics. We will draw on (and build upon) case studies taken from New York - including an oil spill in Brooklyn and a sewage treatment plant in Harlem - as well as from urban Brazil, India and China. Assignments will include the use of mapping techniques to explore the spatial dimensions of urban environmental politics and to better understand the challenges of "designing the livable city."

NITL 1101 A - Italian Intro 1 CRN: 4983 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Caterina Bertolotto Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is aimed at developing proficiency in the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. It introduces basic vocabulary and grammar and provides opportunities for students to enhance their understanding and appreciation of Italian culture through songs, videos, dialogues and other fun activities. The course is intended for students with no previous knowledge of Italian.

NITL 1101 B - Italian Intro 1 CRN: 4986 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Rita Pasqui Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is aimed at developing proficiency in the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. It introduces basic vocabulary and grammar and provides opportunities for students to enhance their understanding and appreciation of Italian culture through songs, videos, dialogues and other fun activities. The course is intended for students with no previous knowledge of Italian.

NITL 1101 C - Italian Intro 1 CRN: 6018 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Rita Pasqui Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 8:00 am - 9:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is aimed at developing proficiency in the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. It introduces basic vocabulary and grammar and provides opportunities for students to enhance their understanding and appreciation of Italian culture through songs, videos, dialogues and other fun activities. The course is intended for students with no previous knowledge of Italian.

NITL 1102 A - Italian Intro 2 CRN: 4993 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Caterina Bertolotto Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Students expand their vocabulary, add to their knowledge of Italian grammar, and develop their conversational skills in an interactive and fun classroom atmosphere. Prerequisite: Italian Intro 1 or permission of the instructor.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 81 of 91 NITL 2101 A - Italian Intermediate 1 CRN: 5082 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Francesca Magnani Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 4:00 pm - 5:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Intermediate Italian 1 aims to deepen students' grammatical knowledge with more complex syntactic structures and to expand their vocabulary. Students will improve in the four linguistic areas through listening to authentic materials; practicing conversation in class; intensive reading (with some exploration of literary and cultural materials), and writing short compositions. Prerequisite: Italian Intro 2 or permission of the instructor.

NJPN 1101 A - Japanese Intro 1 CRN: 4995 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Tomoyo Fontein Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is designed to introduce elementary Japanese to students with no previous background in the language. It is aimed at developing basic proficiency in the four language skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. This course introduces the three Japanese writing systems from the beginning of the semester. Students are required to learn all 46 Hiragana and 46 Katakana, as well as 43 Kanji (Chinese characters). Course covers Chapters 1 through 4 of the textbook Genki I.

NJPN 1101 B - Japanese Intro 1 CRN: 4996 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Misae Pergolizzi Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 8:00 am - 9:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is designed to introduce elementary Japanese to students with no previous background in the language. It is aimed at developing basic proficiency in the four language skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. This course introduces the three Japanese writing systems from the beginning of the semester. Students are required to learn all 46 Hiragana and 46 Katakana, as well as 43 Kanji (Chinese characters). Course covers Chapters 1 through 4 of the textbook Genki I.

NJPN 1101 C - Japanese Intro 1 CRN: 6029 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Taeko Horiko Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is designed to introduce elementary Japanese to students with no previous background in the language. It is aimed at developing basic proficiency in the four language skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. This course introduces the three Japanese writing systems from the beginning of the semester. Students are required to learn all 46 Hiragana and 46 Katakana, as well as 43 Kanji (Chinese characters). Course covers Chapters 1 through 4 of the textbook Genki I.

NJPN 1102 B - Japanese Intro 2 CRN: 6030 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Tomoyo Fontein Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is designed for students who already have a basic knowledge of Japanese vocabulary and sentence patterns, including Hiragana and Katakana. Students will develop familiarity with Japanese culture by learning communicative contexts and strategies. We will cover Chapters 5 through 8 of Genki I. Students are required to learn 57 Kanji (Chinese characters) during the semester. Prerequisite: Japanese Intro I or permission of the instructor.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 82 of 91 NJPN 2101 A - Japanese Intermediate 1 CRN: 5000 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Taeko Horiko Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Intended to enhance and increase proficiency beyond the basic level in the four language skills. Students are expected to have a good command in both Hiragana and Katakana. Students will develop familiarity with Japanese culture in a Japanese-speaking environment. A total of 59 Kanji (Chinese characters) will be introduced during the semester. Intermediate I covers Chapters 9 through 12 of Genki I. Prerequisite: Japanese Intro 2 or permission of the instructor.

NLTN 1101 A - Latin Intro 1 CRN: 4947 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Rama C Madhu Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description The study of Latin is ideally suited to students of literature. Unlike modern languages, which are studied with the goal of communication along with reading, the study of Latin is purely literary. The study of Latin also provides the background in grammar, linguistics, and the analytical tools crucial for interpretation of literature in general. This course, which is intended for students with no prior knowledge of the language, quickly introduces Latin through a simple grammar and unedited texts drawn from poetry, philosophy, history, science, and the novel.

NLTN 1105 A - Latin Multi-Level CRN: 5136 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Rama C Madhu Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description In this "one-room schoolhouse," experienced Latinists are mixed with students whose acquaintance with the language is slight to the mutual benefit of both parties. Knowledge of Latin is deepened through a free ranging discussion and examination of Latin literature. Readings are drawn from the 2200 year range of Latin literature, from Sallust and Horace, through the Bible and Augustine, Descartes and Hobbes, to the 21st century. Students are encouraged to pursue their own interests, allowing them to complement their studies in their area of concentration. Prerequisite: Intro to Latin or permission of the instructor.

NPSY 3870 A - Evolutionary Psychology CRN: 3347 Credits 0 OR 3 Profesor(s): Gina Turner Day(s) & Time(s): W: 8:00 pm - 9:50 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Evolutionary theory suggests that animal, including human, behavior is shaped by biological drives like survival and reproduction. These drives influence how we interact interpersonally and culturally. In addition, culture itself has imperatives that exert pressures on human behavior. Evolutionary psychology looks at the influences of both the biological, or genetic, and the cultural, or sociological, marries the two sides of the "nature vs. nurture" debate, and asserts that the education we receive, or the culture we live in, can be as much of an evolutionary mechanism of human development as the genes that we receive from our parents. This course looks at milestones along the course of the human lifespan (including parenting and parent/child relationships, family interactions, mate choice, illness, and other social interactions such as friendship and violence) and provides some possible explanations, from an evolutionary perspective, as to how these events are played out, looking at both human behavior universals and culturally-specific variations. This course also satisfies some requirements in Psychology.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 83 of 91 NSPN 1102 A - Spanish Intro 2 CRN: 4959 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Luis Guillermo Galli Vilchez Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description Review of basic Spanish grammar and introduction of more complex conversational elements. Students expand their vocabulary and knowledge of Spanish and Latin American culture in a classroom setting that enhances and develops communication skills. Students are required to do presentations in Spanish. Prerequisite: Spanish Intro I or one year of HS Spanish, or permission of the instructor.

NSPN 1101 A - Spanish Intro 1 CRN: 4956 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Luis Guillermo Galli Vilchez Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 10:00 am - 11:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is intended for students with no previous knowledge of Spanish. Students learn the basic vocabulary, grammar, and culture of Spain and Latin America in a classroom setting that enhances and develops communication skills at a beginner level.

NSPN 1101 B - Spanish Intro 1 CRN: 4958 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Mariela Martinez-Jimenez Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is intended for students with no previous knowledge of Spanish. Students learn the basic vocabulary, grammar, and culture of Spain and Latin America in a classroom setting that enhances and develops communication skills at a beginner level.

NSPN 2101 A - Spanish Intermediate 1 CRN: 4961 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Rodolfo Long Day(s) & Time(s): TR: 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description

NSPN 2102 A - Spanish Intermediate 2 CRN: 4962 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Sara Villa Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 10:00 am - 11:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is designed to advance students toward high intermediate fluency. Students learn useful communicative skills via activities emphasizing oral proficiency, culture and grammar. Prerequisite: Spanish Intermediate I or 3 years of HS Spanish, or permission of the instructor.

NSPN 3101 A - Advanced 1: Hispanic Culture Through Film CRN: 5272 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Sara Villa Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description In this course students study several influential films of Spain and Latin America as a springboard toward a broader understanding of modern themes at work in Hispanic society today (immigration and exile; globalization; environmental degradation; marginalized or fringe groups;etc.). Language skills development is an integral part of the course. Prerequisite: Intermediate Spanish II or 4 years of high school Spanish, or permission of the instructor.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 84 of 91 NSPN 4101 A - Cita en Espanol CRN: 6037 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Luis Guillermo Galli Vilchez Day(s) & Time(s): MW: 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Students expand their vocabulary and knowledge of Spanish, border and Latin American culture in a classroom setting that enhances and develops communication. Discussion in class will be based on readings, movies and on actual social, political issues of Latin America and Spain, including the environment, religion, and the role of women in Spain and Latin America. Prerequisite: Spanish Advanced 1, 5 years of high school Spanish, or permission of the instructor.

PLAH 2010 A - Latin American Art CRN: 1592 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Marisa Lerer Day(s) & Time(s): M: 12:00 pm - 2:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the history of Latin American art from the Conquest to the present. Through the juxtaposed study of architecture, painting, sculpture, popular art, the graphic arts, and photography, students learn about art from the colonial period, the era of Independence, the 19th century, and the first half of the 20th century. Lectures, slide presentations, and video screenings are structured around a chronological survey, but the course also considers the main aesthetic and intellectual discourses that have defined Latin American art and culture throughout the ages. This course is coscheduled with Parsons The New School for Design. This course also satisfies some requirements in The Arts.

PLAH 2030 A - Baroque Art CRN: 4467 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Eve Eisenstadt Day(s) & Time(s): F: 6:00 pm - 8:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Baroque was and is the style of extremes, of pushing art to its limits and beyond. Visible today in the work of artists such as Matthew Barney, the Baroque originated in Europe in the 1600s and included artists such as Caravaggio, Bernini, Velasquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Vermeer. While some artists worked for the church or for the elite, many others became independent entrepreneurs, developing popular new commodities such as portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings. The objective for this class is to explore the Baroque as both an era and an attitude, connecting the past with current developments in film, photography, fine arts, and design. The Baroque will be explored through readings and discussions about specific artists and themes, museum visits, class projects and presentations, videos, and slides. This course also satisfies some requirements in The Arts.

PLAH 2050 A - African Art CRN: 3071 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Leon Waller Day(s) & Time(s): R: 6:00 pm - 8:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course focuses on three aspects of African art and culture, starting with an introduction to traditional religious and philosophical thought. This is followed by an overview of ancient kingdoms, specifically, the Congo, Benin, Yoruba, and Akan kingdoms. The course concludes with an overview of village communities, including the Dogon, Bamana, Dan, and Senufo peoples. This course is coscheduled with Parsons The New School for Design. This course also satisfies some requirements in The Arts.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 85 of 91 PLAH 2080 A - Contemporary Art CRN: 2819 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Nancy Grove Day(s) & Time(s): M: 12:00 pm - 2:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Contemporary art is global, multipurpose, and increasingly integrated with music, film, design and other creative fields; New York City is still, arguably, the best place in the world to explore it. The objective of this class is to promote understanding of issues important to contemporary art, including the tensions between image and object, accumulation and appropriation, entertainment and enlightenment. The class will experience contemporary art through slides, videos, and discussion of texts drawn from current books and journals, but also through visits to galleries and museums and written assignments and class presentations designed to further observational and analytic abilities and enable class members to connect individual and collective experiences of contemporary art with their own work and ideas. This course also satisfies some requirements in The Arts.

PLAH 2100 A - Modern Art CRN: 3097 Credits 3 Profesor(s): John Angeline Day(s) & Time(s): M: 3:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description The modern period, while over 100 years old, is still largely confusing and poorly understood by many of the people who have lived during its development. This course will set the foundation for the modern period by beginning with Realism and moving through the 20th century, considering the issues and context that inform the formal strategies being pursued at the time. This course also satisfies some requirements in The Arts.

PLAH 2160 B - Japanese Art CRN: 3094 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Eve Eisenstadt Day(s) & Time(s): F: 3:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Historically, the Japanese have not made a distinction between fine art and craft. Japanese art and aesthetics are addressed in screens, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, fabric, and scrolls, just to name a few areas of importance. This survey of Japanese art, explores the visual and historical elements fundamental to Japanese aesthetics, including an examination of connections to Shinto and Esoteric Buddhism through theater costume, temples, shrines, screens, and ceremonial objects. Various periods will be discussed, including the Jomon, Kofum (Haniwa culture), Nara, Heian, Kamakura, and Edo. The class will also look at contemporary Japanese art. This course also satisfies some requirements in The Arts.

PLAH 2217 A - Pop: Art and Popular Culture CRN: 5026 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Nancy Grove Day(s) & Time(s): W: 9:00 am - 11:40 am Prerequisite(s Course Description Since the beginning of the 20th century, artists and designers have made use of elements from popular culture in their work. Early examples of such usage include the bits of newspaper attached by Pablo Picasso to his Cubist canvases, the magazine photographs collaged by Hannah Hoch to create unique Dada personages, and the American products and signage that appear in Stuart Davis's paintings of the 1920's and 1930's. By the 1950's, Jasper Johns was painting copies of the American flag, while in the 1960's Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg (among others) reproduced every aspect of popular culture, from movie stars to junk food. Since then, artists and designers have increasingly drawn upon sources that include television, films, advertising, and cyberspace for both the style and substance of their work. This class will explore both past and present connections between art, design, and popular culture. This course also satisfies some requirements in The Arts.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 86 of 91 PUFA 2040 A - Expanding Horizons: Drawing Inspiration from Non-Western Art CRN: 2099 Credits 2 Profesor(s): Susan Hambleton Day(s) & Time(s): W: 12:00 pm - 2:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is designed to integrate two closely related activities: art that is being made (yours) and art that has been made (in this case, the art of non-western cultures). Taking advantage of our citys great resources, the class will visit collections and museums, e.g., the Japan society and the museum of African art. Students will discuss the work on site and record their experiences in a journal. Back in the studio, from those notes, students will be able to develop ideas and imagery of their own. This is an opportunity for students to study several different collections of non-Western art and to use the experience indirectly in their own studio work. This is about exposure to ideas, visions, and intentions that are different from the art world and about finding inspiration for creating new work. The emphasis will be more on exploration and development of visual ideas than on the production of finished pieces.

PUIL 3233 A - Picture-Story Workshop CRN: 6542 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Ben Katchor Day(s) & Time(s): W: 3:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Students explore the possibilities of expression when text and image are combined on a page. Using their own work they analyze how drawing can ampifiy written passages and how descriptive passages can enhance the stories in their drawings. The course examines the use of prospective systems, body-language, projective drawings, and graphology. All students will draw and write.

PUPH 2200 A - Photography 2: Photojournalism CRN: 4524 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Vincent Cianni Day(s) & Time(s): R: 6:00 pm - 8:40 pm Prerequisite(s Pre-requisite(s): PUPH 1200 Photography 1 or by permission of the department. Please see a photography department advisor to schedule a class or portfolio review. Course Description In this class, through the study of great photojournalistic images and weekly assignments, students learn how to use images to tell a story while developing a personal vision. Photojournalism requires passion and commitment because it is an endeavor to find the truth and tell the stories that need to be told. Great photojournalism causes a viewer to linger on the images; photojournalistic images have the power to change our perceptions of reality. This course satisfies some requirements in the Arts. Pre-requisite(s): PUPH 1200 Photography 1 or by permission of the department. Please see a photography department advisor to schedule a class or portfolio review.

PUPH 1200 A - Photography 1 CRN: 3947 Credits 3 Profesor(s): Bill Gaskins Day(s) & Time(s): R: 3:00 pm - 5:40 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Offered in the fall and spring semesters, this course is an introduction to photography as a visual language and will teach students the technique, aesthetics and theory of photographic images through a variety of assignments, readings, field trips and lectures. Students are encouraged to experiment with different modes of photography and to create a final project based on individual interests. The final will consist of a bound photographic book made in multiples so that each student can receive a copy of each students work. Although the course will look at the history of the medium and address specific issues related to traditional film based photography, most of the work produced in the class will be made with digital technology. This course satisfies some requirements in the Arts.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 87 of 91 ULEC 2310 A - Media Politics: Appearing, Showing, Acting (Disc. Sec Reqd) CRN: 6388 Credits 0 Profesor(s): Jeffrey Goldfarb Day(s) & Time(s): M: 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course will critically examine the media politics of our times. We will consider public situations, problems, controversies and media events: terrorism, the Olympic Games, the spectacle of suffering, the spectacle of race, the politics of the kitchen table, and the theater of resistance. We will analyze the events and publics that respond to them, stressing how these publics contribute to the possibility of the constitution of a free political life. We will start with an examination of the notion of acting, and its ambiguities, political action both as an attempt to transform the world, and as a form of performance akin to theater. We will move on to explore how showing makes action possible, with the participants in a public appearing together in interaction. This, we will see, is where media play a crucial role. With their help, performance turns to action. The media narrate and witness gestures that might have had limited impact, giving them public appearance, broadly seen and heard. Such appearance, Hannah Arendt has demonstrated, is crucial to the existence of a viable politics. Ours will be an investigation of how this does and does not work in contemporary societies. Readings will include the works of Arendt, Erving Goffman, Roland Barthes and A.J. Austin, among others. To receive credit, Lang students must register for a discussion section ULEC 2311.

ULEC 2030 A - Introduction to Microeconomics (Disc. Sec Reqd) CRN: 5236 Credits 0 Profesor(s): Teresa Ghilarducci Day(s) & Time(s): T: 10:00 am - 11:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course focuses on the principles of microeconomics and their application to the international economy. After analyzing the basic supply and demand characteristics of markets, we turn to a treatment of an analysis of competition and market structure, income distribution, labor markets, innovation in technology and design, market failure, international trade and international capital markets and, finally, economic development. This course is a companion to Introduction to Macroeconomics, although that course is not a prerequisite for taking this one. This course has a weekly lecture given by Professor Milberg and a weekly discussion section led by one of the Teaching Assistants. You are required to attend both the lecture and the discussion section for which you are registered. To receive credit, Lang students must register for a Discussion section ULEC 2031.

ULEC 2160 A - Introduction to Psychology (Disc. Sec Reqd) CRN: 3881 Credits 0 Profesor(s): Howard Steele Day(s) & Time(s): M: 10:00 am - 11:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description This course provides an introduction to the broad science of Psychology. The lectures will address theory and research concerning useful ways of understanding human thought, feeling and behavior. Examples will come from human or animal behavior (which can be observed), or from mental and emotional activity (which can often only be inferred from behavior). Specific topics include: diverse psychological theories and approaches to the design of a psychological experiment; the long-term influence of early experiences upon personality development; the reality of (and ongoing possibilities for) change and further development in our emotions, thoughts and behaviors; how babies come to understand they are animate objects in space; and why, once learned, we do not easily forget many tasks, such as how to ride a bicycle. This Introduction to Psychology lecture course provides a thorough overview of the history and current status of cognitive, developmental, social, and clinical psychology. Please note: For Eugene Lang College students pursuing the undergraduate major in Psychology, this is a required course. To receive credit, Lang students must register for a Discussion section ULEC 2161.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 88 of 91 ULEC 2460 A - Music in Film (Disc. Sec Reqd) CRN: 5032 Credits 0 Profesor(s): Ivan Raykoff Day(s) & Time(s): T: 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course explores the role of music in cinema, including an overview of the history and techniques of film music. It examines soundtrack music in feature films ranging from the silent era through Hollywood's Golden Age (including genres such as melodrama, noir, musicals, and westerns) to recent productions. It also surveys composers who have written for films and classical composers whose music has been appropriated for soundtracks. In addition to weekly reading assignments, students are required to view ten assigned films outside of class. To receive credit, Lang students must register for a Discussion section ULEC 2461.

ULEC 2330 A - The Left: Old, New, Future (Disc. Sec Reqd) CRN: 6395 Credits 0 Profesor(s): Ann Snitow Day(s) & Time(s): T: 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description This course is an exploration of the Left in American politics via shifts from the Old Left through the New Left to contemporary struggles over the meaning of the Left today. The course draws extensively on original documents as well as scholarly analysis from many disciplines. We also explore the cultural dimension of progressive politics throughout. Particular attention will be paid to the emergence of civil rights/Black power and women's liberation/feminism in the 1960s and to the fate of race and gender politics in the twenty-first century. Since it is the fortieth anniversary of 1968, we will have a special opportunity to reflect on the Sixties and its contested legacies and to attend the many commemorative events scheduled in the city this fall. Throughout the course we will address such questions as: How have political activists' conceptions of "liberation," "domination," and social transformation changed over time? How have disparate political elements been fused into apparently coherent political movements and programs? When did calls for liberation morph into identity claims? What connections and disjunctions link older movements with contemporary efforts to achieve political change now? Where possible we will show documentary videos to give students a feel for changing conceptions of progressive politics in the United States. Although the course focuses primarily on the United States, we welcome students who are interested in social moments and moments of social transformation in other times and locales. To receive credit, Lang students must register for a discussion section ULEC 2331. This course counts toward requirements in Social Inquiry: Politics.

ULEC 2420 A - Extreme Media Studies (Disc. Sec Reqd) CRN: 6081 Credits 0 Profesor(s): Elizabeth Ellsworth Day(s) & Time(s): W: 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Today's media are rearranging the landscapes of our daily lives right under our feet. Extreme Media Studies use contemporary media theories and media design practices to explore what we call "extreme media phenomena:" media devices, environments, and uses that plunge us into deep core qualitative change. In this team-taught course and will employ a media rich learning environment (ExtremeMediaStudies.org). The curriculum will emphasize concepts such as convergence culture and user-centered approaches to understanding media evolution, design thinking, and the design/creatove process. Students will experiment with these ideas and test them out through a series of hands-on projects. Focus will be on four extreme media phenomena that are reshaping core human experiences right now. Exploration of these phenomena through media "scans." Each scan presents a carefully orchestrated set of full-body experiences of how extreme media are changing basic patterns of people's daily lives. To receive credit, Lang students must register for a discussion section ULEC 2421.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 89 of 91 ULEC 2430 A - The City: Inside-Out (Disc. Sec Reqd) CRN: 6097 Credits 0 Profesor(s): Margarita Gutman Day(s) & Time(s): T: 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description Cities cannot be captured in a single photograph, single statistic or a single image. Historically cities were and are in continuous processes of change and continuity. Cities are composed of layers of shapes, spaces, culture, functions, and symbols, all condensed and distilled in urban life and landscapes. This course focuses on these layers, their interaction and change, understanding cities as active sediments of the past, interacting with the present needs of society. The course analyzes how urban structure and space are shaped by and actively contribute to the definition of other processes such as nation building, industrial capitalism, cultural identity, transportation, migration, social mobility, flexible capital accumulation, globalization and inequality. To receive credit, Lang students must register for a Discussion section ULEC 2431.

ULEC 2470 A - Militarized Vision (Disc. Sec Reqd) CRN: 6115 Credits 0 Profesor(s): Orit Halpern Day(s) & Time(s): T: 4:00 pm - 5:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description People often say that contemporary warfare looks like a video game. Perhaps this is no accident. Perhaps there is a thread that links the technologies of war together with the technologies of entertainment. Just as President Eisenhower warned of the formation of a "military industrial complex", perhaps, as Brenda Laurel and others suggest, we could now say that there is a "military entertainment complex." That is the idea that this course sets out to explore. This course will interrogate the relationship between media, aesthetics, politics, and the military. Through the use of art history, history of science, and media theory we will develop new tools to explore the thesis of a military entertainment complex. Questions we will be engaging with will include: What is the militarization of perception? How have the relationships between media, aesthetics, and politics changed with the advent of new technologies? Does the military origin of most new media forms preclude their deployment for different kinds of agency? This course also satisfies requirements in History. To receive credit, Lang students must register for a Discussion section ULEC 2471.

ULEC 2480 A - India: A Modern History (Disc. Sec Reqd) CRN: 6071 Credits 0 Profesor(s): Faisal Devji Day(s) & Time(s): M: 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm Prerequisite(s Course Description In this course we will explore major developments in Indian politics from colonial times to the present, concentrating especially on the intellectual categories used to understand the subcontinent, as well as on the way in which its geography has come to constitute the space for a distinctive political imagination. Given the introductory nature of this course, and the great diversity of political life in the region, we shall focus on the large ideas that governed the subcontinent's politics during this period, rather than on their particular details. In other words we will be concerned primarily with the meaning of political forms such as imperialism and nationalism in their South Asian context. To do this we will look closely at primary texts produced by important writers of the period, together with a number of secondary sources commenting on this history, including also works of literature in both classes. This course satisfies requirements in History. To receive credit, Lang students must register for a Discussion section ULEC 2481.

For the most up-to-date class schedule information login to MyNewSchool Page 90 of 91 ULEC 2500 A - Introduction to Visual Culture (Disc. Sec Reqd) CRN: 5037 Credits 0 Profesor(s): Margot Bouman Day(s) & Time(s): R: 10:00 am - 11:20 am Prerequisite(s Course Description Visual media pervade our everyday experience in a world where images, in addition to texts, are central to the way we represent and understand our culture. From newspapers to the Web, from the sciences to the humanities, from "mass" culture to "high" culture, we now encounter visual artifacts in every area of our lives. Since the traditional arts of painting, drawing, and printmaking began to give way to photography in the nineteenth century as the common means of visual representation and documentation, subsequent developments in film, video, and digital media have transmitted images throughout the globe. And alongside these historical developments in media, new types of viewing audiences have emerged. Visual Culture Studies is an exciting, new area of study that looks at the relationship between art, media, and the subjects that look at and create at them, as well as the social, cultural, and historical significance of this exchange. This course will familiarize students with the key terms and debates of Visual Culture Studies, and consider their historical relevance to art and cultural practices since the advent of photography. Using the methods we acquire from the texts read in class, we will interrogate the practices of looking we often take for granted, and ask questions about our subjective relationship to a variety of media from painting to film, video to digital media. Moreover, the class will encourage dialogue about these issues, given that we will be approaching all image artifacts as producers as well as consumers of visual culture. To receive credit, Lang students must register for a Discussion section ULEC 2501.

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